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...
Scruples against profiting
He put a bitter and perpetual tax on the sale of bread, which the day laborers, the poor and the infirm could not help...
Alexander more than ever
This man immediately decided to deprive them of all this. When Justinian, Emperor of the Romans, learned of this economy, he was greatly pleased,...
Constantine saw Hosius of Cdrdoba
“One thing, Augustus.” It was Marcellinus. “Is it true that you have become a Christian?”
In his chair on the front row of seats in...
Invited Maxentius
“We come at the peril of our lives and the certain loss of our positions and possessions, Augustus,” said the spokesman for the delegation,...
Political alliance between Maxentius and Maximin
“How could we, when it would mean our death?” the old nobleman cried. “We only managed to escape by smuggling ourselves aboard a galley...
Less important a weapon than the sword
Constantine looked at Crocus and saw the same bewilderment in the eyes of the young Frank that he felt himself. The lance used by...
Constantine felt tin breath
At the metallic command, both lines turned slightly at full gallop, passing through each other’s ranks so closely that Constantine felt tin’ breath of...
Caesar Galerius rode in from Sirmiu
“Caesar Galerius rode in from Sirmium” yesterday, especially for the Augustalia,” he said. “Diocletian is always glad to delegate a reviewing chore to someone...
