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When the dome collapsed, Paul tells us, clouds of dust darkened the day, the earth shook, but Christ protected his church and no one...

And so in 532, when he ordered the execution of two criminals prominent in the factions—one Blue and one Green—he poked the hornet’s nest...

Constantine himself led an austere life and there was a minimum of luxury in the palace, so the major part of the accumulation in...

Reading the reports of his spies in the rest of the Empire, Constantine sometimes felt like an observer perched high above some giant circus,...

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

“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...

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...

The Empress and her daughter came out just then and Constantine went to call the litter bearers. But from then on, he assigned to...

Now the Praetor, whenever he found anything very valuable among the stolen goods that came to his notice, was supposed to give it to...

DEBASING OF THE QUAESTORSHIPHe also had contrived other ways of plundering his subjects (which I will now describe as well as I can) by...