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The Emperor was always very careful to choose for his agents men who were truly of all people the worst scoundrels; and he had no trouble finding those who were bad enough. When, indeed...

“Publish it, of course. After all, I’ve been doing the same thing in Gaul and Britain for several years.”“Your mother will be happy to hear it.”“Then she has really become one of them?”“Yes. She...

Constantine had expected Fausta to be difficult while Crispus was in Treves. The boy was less than a decade younger than she and posed a definite threat to her ambitions for the sons she...

“And now only Maxentius stands in my way ”“Our way, darling. Remember, I started planning all this when I saw you fight Crocus at Nicomedia.”“Our way then,” he added, smiling. “But what shall I...

The mists of the night had still not lifted from the countryside when they had taken to the fields in a southward direction outside Hadrianopolis and shortly found themselves on the Via Eg natia,...

In the end Constantine had been left no choice except to order Dacius to find Fausta, or at least try to learn where she was, and the grizzled centurion had departed with his back...

“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 good night’s sleep; we’ll have a long ride tomorrow.”Constantine had...

Also everywhere else in the Roman Empire Justinian did the same. Picking out the worst scoundrels he could find, he sold them the offices they were to corrupt, for large sums of money. Indeed,...

When Junilus completed the measure of his life, Constantine was appointed Quaestor: a man not unacquainted with law, but exceeding young, and without actual experience in court; and the most thievish bully among men....

For this act of senseless obstinacy she was universally censured. Yet when her husband came home, she easily persuaded him to approve her course: which should have openly disclosed the character of the man....