Maxentius and Maximian
“More like Vesuvius in eruption,” Dacius said dryly. “Rome is angry enough to leave the Empire, if it could, but Maxentius and Maximian have...
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...
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...
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;...
