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Belisarius was utterly incapable
The reason for this was that after the Vandals were defeated, Justinian planned, not how he might best strengthen his hold on the country,...
John the Cappadocian
What she did to John the Cappadocian I have told elsewhere; and need add only that her treatment of him was due to her...
Civil and ecclesiastical offices
Theodora’s idea was to control everything in the state to suit herself. Civil and ecclesiastical offices were all in her hand, and there was...
Law prohibiting pederasty
Next he turned his attention to those called Gentiles, torturing their persons and plundering their lands. of this group, those who decided to become...
Foolishly thinking
As none of the previous Emperors had molested these churches, many men, even those of the orthodox faith, got their livelihood by working on...
Laid waste the Empire
This encouraged still others of them to rob the poor Romans; and after their pillaging, they too were further rewarded by the gracious Emperor....
Britain from Dacius
“Why not, if Bonar can be brought to terms? After all, Carausius ruled for a while there. If he hadn’t wanted Gaul too, and...
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....
Augustus at Carthage
In Africa and Egypt, what had long been an uneasy peace suddenly erupted into war when a group of five Moorish nations left their...
Being in the Emperors own household
The three years spent at Nicomedia while attaining his majority were in many ways a period of frustration for Constantine. For although he was...
