Actually Galerius was right
“You get used to it in time. Actually Galerius was right burning is a far more merciful form of execution than, say, crucifixion. With...
Recurrent raids into Gaul
Galerius, however, had no intention of offering refuge to the old troublemaker, so Maximian was forced to flee again, this time to Arles, where...
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...
Differently from the rest of the Romans
Then it was that Justinian, fanning the flame and openly inciting the Blues to fight, made the whole Roman Empire shake on its foundation,...
The conquest of Libya and Italy
Though the plague, described in my former books, attacked the whole world, no fewer men escaped than perished of it; for some never were...
Some evidence of the Emperor’s hand
As time went on, this Justin came to great power. For the Emperor Anastasius appointed him Count of the palace guard; and when the...
Arles the Massilotes
At Arles the Massilotes had built an important trading station in the time of the early Phoenicians, before the luckless Queen Dido of Tyre...
With Maximian and Maxentius
“There is no hurry,” he assured her. “I plan to remain in Arles for a while; it will be easier to keep in touch...
