Dacius protested
“Surely you don’t intend to determine prices and wages, as Diocletian did,” Dacius protested.
“No, that scheme was a failure. But a plan that makes...
Perhaps killed those you love
“No!” the crowd thundered.
“They have attacked you in your homes, perhaps killed those you love. What shall be their punishment?”
“Throw them to the beasts!”...
Salonae hoping to resume
Paris who was busy bringing his army up to the greatest strength he could attain against the day when some of the others might...
Unpleasant experience
This, however, is what he schemed with reference to the Student Corps. Whenever an army was about to be sent against Libya, Italy, or...
Authority in Italy
Later, some of the palace guards were sent throughout the whole Roman Empire to investigate how many on the military lists were unfit for...
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...
Own Officials
HOW HE ROBBED HIS OWN OFFICIALS
I will next describe another way in which he robbed his subjects. Those who serve the Emperor and the...
Mother sympathized with these often persecute
He knew his mother sympathized with these often persecuted people. He had been intrigued, too, by the stories his fellow schoolmates told of strange...
