Saksagan
Possession of priceless goods
Now the Praetor, whenever he found anything very valuable among the stolen goods that came to his notice, was supposed to give it to...
Quaestorship
DEBASING OF THE QUAESTORSHIP
He also had contrived other ways of plundering his subjects (which I will now describe as well as I can) by...
Immediately robbed
Having thus carried away the public wealth, he turned his eye upon his private subjects. Most of them he immediately robbed of their estates,...
The entire Roman Empire
CHARACTER AND APPEARANCE OF JUSTINIAN
Now this went on not only in Constantinople, but in every city: for like any other disease, the evil, starting...
Bosphorus and forthwith vanished
The magistrates seemed to have been driven from their senses, and their wits enslaved by the fear of one man. The judges, when deciding...
Pointing out personal enemies
Some of the opposite party joined this faction so as to get even with the people of their original side who had ill-treated them;...
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...
