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...
Flavius Valerius Constantinus a centurion assigned henceforth
For whatever reason, Diocletian did not immediately put into effect the decree he had discussed with Constantine, but the promise of a position in...
Precious metal in the coinage Dominus
“I can see the advantage of fixing the amount of precious metal in the coinage, Dominus,” he said. “But I don’t think setting prices...
