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Centuries emperormakers

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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

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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

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And it was not long after this that Belisarius was persuaded by his wife to kill Constantine. What happened at that time concerning Presidius...

Increased immeasurably under the rigorous training

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So a year passed and by its end Constantine who showed all the natural instincts of a fine soldier and particularly a cavalryman was...

Usually young men of noble birth

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Each army had been commanded originally by a consul responsible to the Senate, but now a general responsible to one of the two Emperors,...

The officer candidates at the copper basins

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In the barracks after the run they had time only to splash their faces and bodies with water, the soldiers at a long trough...

Endless discomfort of a soldier’s life

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Now, the harmonious structure and great charm of the Caesar’s writings are well-known to all who have chanced to take a look at his...

Caesar Nicephorus

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But he who undertakes the “role” of an historian must sink his personal likes and dislikes, and often award the highest praise to his...

THE ALEXIAD OF ANNA COMNENA

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I time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things, and drowns them in the depths of obscurity,...