Constantine had somehow expected
“You have changed,” she said.
“I’m almost two years older than when you saw me last,” Constantine reminded her. “But I am still a tribune...
Persians following Galerius
“This must have been Carrhae all over again,” Dacius said. “I only hope Galerius suffered the same fate.”
For a moment Constantine was too much...
Destroying their intended victims
The chances of very many of those under attack getting safely across the broad flood, here almost half a mile in width, appeared hopeless....
Sometimes called Europos nowadays
Lucius Catullus put a finger on the map. “There is a ruined town here at Dura it’s sometimes called Europos nowadays. I’m sure you...
Folly progressed to an indescribable extent
Once, in Carthage, Belisarius caught her in the very act, but allowed himself to be deceived by his wife. Finding the two in an...
HOW THE GREAT GENERAL BELISARIUS WAS HOODWINKED BY HIS WIFE
The father of Belisarius’s wife, a lady whom I have mentioned in my former books, was (and so was her grandfather) a charioteer, exhibiting...
Procopius of Caesarea The Secret History
In what I have written on the Roman wars up to the present point, the story was arranged in chronological order and as completely...
Illyrian veterans
Tiridates’ laugh boomed out. “How could I, with my back to the river?”
Dispatches from the Persian campaign soon began to arrive daily, telling of...
Galerius prepared carefully
The Empress and her daughter came out just then and Constantine went to call the litter bearers. But from then on, he assigned to...
Byzantium in the Eleventh Century
In the preface to his Synopsis Historion, John Skylitzes reveals that he held the elevated rank of kouropalates, and was formerly the megas droungarios...
