Rule the rest of the Empire
Constantine had expected Fausta to be difficult while Crispus was in Treves. The boy was less than a decade younger than she and posed...
Riding with Eumenius and Crispus
“And now only Maxentius stands in my way ”
“Our way, darling. Remember, I started planning all this when I saw you fight Crocus at...
Across the mouth of the Mare Adriaticum
The mists of the night had still not lifted from the countryside when they had taken to the fields in a southward direction outside...
Between Nicomedia and Sirmium
In the end Constantine had been left no choice except to order Dacius to find Fausta, or at least try to learn where she...
Constantine stood in an upper room
“It will be well planned, you can wager on that,” Dacius agreed. “But that’s a game two can play. Now we’d better get a...
Pillaging the country
Also everywhere else in the Roman Empire Justinian did the same. Picking out the worst scoundrels he could find, he sold them the offices...
Junilus completed the measure
When Junilus completed the measure of his life, Constantine was appointed Quaestor: a man not unacquainted with law, but exceeding young, and without actual...
Affair sufficiently in my chapter elsewhere
For this act of senseless obstinacy she was universally censured. Yet when her husband came home, she easily persuaded him to approve her course:...
Long farewell to the Roman army
The Roman expedition, already on its last legs, now collapsed entirely. And this is how Belisarius concluded the Gothic war. In despair he begged...
It is dangerous to be a Christian
“I am a Christian,” she said quietly. “We are forbidden to worship any god except our own, and any graven image.”
“But it is dangerous...
