Nicomedia without Galerius
Constantine had not known Galerius was in the city until he saw the stocky figure of the Caesar of the East follow the much...
Become Augustus of the East
“You will obey, of course?”
I can do nothing else, though I had enough of that in Alexandria. But I wanted to be sure no...
Drepanum and Dura
The interior arrangement was somewhat like those he had seen at Drepanum and Dura, consisting of a single large room with benches for the...
Faring in small boats
But this tyrant first suppressed the post from Chalcedon to Dacibiza, and then compelled the couriers to go from Constantinople to Helenopolis, however little...
Caesarea was one Evangelius
There is nothing like mentioning one of his ridiculous acts. Among the lawyers at Caesarea was one Evangelius, a man of no mean distinction,...
Affair between Solomon and Pegasius
After Pegasius had ransomed Solomon from the Levathae, and the barbarians had gone home, Solomon with Pegasius his ransomer and a few soldiers, set...
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...
Unsuspecting enemy
The cavalry did not remain with the foot, but launched a wide swing eastward and then south, trapping the unsuspecting enemy against the river...
