Innocent people to the sword
“Maximian has a son.”
“Maxentius is nothing but a cruel and oppressive libertine,” Helena said with scorn. “In Africa he put thousands of innocent people...
Pronouncements and decisions
Now, though Rome clung desperately to its former glory, and the Senate continued to meet there, its pronouncements and decisions turned out to be...
Comparison to the new officials
The Emperor was always very careful to choose for his agents men who were truly of all people the worst scoundrels; and he had...
Pillaging the country
Also everywhere else in the Roman Empire Justinian did the same. Picking out the worst scoundrels he could find, he sold them the offices...
Junilus completed the measure
When Junilus completed the measure of his life, Constantine was appointed Quaestor: a man not unacquainted with law, but exceeding young, and without actual...
Affair between Solomon and Pegasius
After Pegasius had ransomed Solomon from the Levathae, and the barbarians had gone home, Solomon with Pegasius his ransomer and a few soldiers, set...
Affair sufficiently in my chapter elsewhere
For this act of senseless obstinacy she was universally censured. Yet when her husband came home, she easily persuaded him to approve her course:...
Long farewell to the Roman army
The Roman expedition, already on its last legs, now collapsed entirely. And this is how Belisarius concluded the Gothic war. In despair he begged...
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...
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...
