Saksagan
Continually subject to change
They even say that it was not so much by flattery that she made Justinian eat from her hand as by demoniac power. For...
Public offices in Constantinople
In this he was not unique; for those who held the same office before and after him were equally dishonest. So were the Master...
Corruption
FURTHER CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES
Now when the Emperor and Theodora dismissed John of Cappadocia, they wished to appoint a successor to his office, and...
Theodora was still too young
When this woman saw the populace assembled in the amphitheater, she placed laurel wreaths on her daughters’ heads and in their hands, and sent...
Anyone put Justinian’s ways
How could anyone put Justinian’s ways into words? These and many even worse vices were disclosed in him as in no other mortal nature...
Accurately together and sewed the body
Domitian’s wife was of free birth and otherwise noble; and neither had she herself ever done wrong to anybody, nor had she assented in...
Eumenius agreed
“They will live with me,” Crocus said at once. “I would not hear of it being otherwise.”
“Perhaps that is just as well,” Eumenius agreed....
Crew scrambled to change the angle present
Constantine caught his breath in a gasp of admiration as a sleek galley rounded a point below them and came into their range of...
Constantius send Diocletian to Nicomedia
“You can thank Galerius for that,” Marios told him. “With your father allied to the House of Maximian by marriage, our new Caesar feared...
Constantine said spitefully
“Now what is all this about?” Marios eased himself into a chair, grimacing from the pain in his leg. “Have you been snooping into...
