Artifice of prayer
HOW ALL ROMAN CITIZENS BECAME SLAVESTheodora too unceasingly hardened her heart in the practice of inhumanity. What she did, was never to please or...
False reports and misleading statements
The officers called Referendars were no longer satisfied to perform their duties of presenting to the Emperor the request of petitioners, and referring to...
Necessary to his prestige
JUSTICE FOR SALEEverything was done the wrong way, and of the old customs none remained; a few instances will illustrate, and the rest must...
Expected similar consideration
Then ,there was a secretary to Justinian named Priscus: an utter villain and Paphlagonian, of a character likely to please his master, to whom...
Queen answered musically
“Yet, Highness, such is my plight. I have creditors to whom I owe money, while others owe money to me. And those whom I...
Superficial difference between them
Not civility, but servility was now the rule, and Theodora was the slave driver. So far had Roman society been corrupted, between the false...
