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But, however that was, the Emperor was in a very bad state; for not even for a moment could he draw breath freely. He...

“What in the world is this disease which has attacked my breathing? for I should like to take a deep, full breath and get...

A year and a half had not passed after my father’s return from his expedition before a second terrible illness fell upon him, and...

And I think that men who lived then and associated with him must even now be marvelling at what was done then and think...

Now many tales were going round and his marvellous talk was bandied about on every tongue, so the executioners were afraid that the demons...

X However all the members of the holy synod and the chief monks, as well as the patriarch of that time, Nicholas, decreed that...

Then all the Bogomils accused of heresy were placed together in the centre and the Emperor commanded each to be examined again. Some confessed...

IX Let this be sufficient about that miracle. I wished to expound the whole heresy of the Bogomils, but ‘modesty prevents me,’ as the...

For these erring Bogomils believe that they can bear any suffering without feeling pain, as the angels forsooth will pluck them out of the...

And he made this monk, who was so many-sided in wickedness, swallow all the poison he offered him by pretending that he wished to...