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Olybrius’s brief reign
Juliana and her mother had never gone west during Olybrius’s brief reign, when she was only about ten years old, or after, and so...
Armenia and the kingdom of Tiridates
It was a clever scheme, Constantine conceded. By burying him in the East, Galerius would avoid the trouble with Constantius that would surely come,...
Same mistake before Galerius
“Don’t tell me you want to stay, after moping around like a lovesick swain for three months.”“I intend to go to Nicomedia, if only...
The householders in Constantinople
Such were the constant afflictions of mankind under the rule of Justinian and Theodora; for there was no release from war or any other...
Huns and barbarous Saracens
For Cabades retired after doing hardly any damage to the buildings, but Chosroes burned to the foundations everything he took, and left greater ruin...
Landowners
HOW LANDOWNERS WERE RUINEDI will now tell how he ruined the landowners everywhere; although it were a sufficient indication of their sufferings to refer...
Photius agreed to serve him in everything
“Yet remember this of me, that I still love my wife exceedingly well; and if it is in my power to punish the ruiner...
Centuries emperormakers
In spite of all the beauty around him, the peaceful and almost bucolic life of Salonae held no lure to an active and ambitious...
HOW BELATED JEALOUSY AFFECTED BELISARIUS’S MILITARY JUDGMENT
But Theodosius refused to leave his monastery, saying he was completely resolved to give himself forever to the cloistered life. This noble pronouncement, however,...
Theodosius came to Italy
And it was not long after this that Belisarius was persuaded by his wife to kill Constantine. What happened at that time concerning Presidius...