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The Emperor received daily news of his doings and with an eye to the future, he did his best to reconcile him by letters and promises as he suspected the evil that would be...

Then he ordered the guardians of the ‘brevia’ to unroll them again with the object of making a clear statement of what had been taken. And he immediately awarded a fairly large sum of...

And when it appeared that nothing else had been taken away except the gold and silver ornaments which lay on the tomb of the Queen Zo6 and a few other vessels of no great...

Within a short time the Emperor took pity on the imprisoned Manichaeans, and those who desired Christian baptism were not refused even this boon. So having overreached them by every kind of device he...

II Here I must interrupt the thread of the story a while to relate how the Emperor suppressed the Paulicians. He could not bear the thought of entering the capital without having first subdued...

Afterwards directly he saw that the Emperor had commenced battle with the Latins on the land-side, he himself was to come as quickly as possible, for the Latins would not be able to carry...

Norman West : Death of Robert Guiscard : The TurksI now Bryennius was holding Castoria, as told above, so the Emperor who was eager to drive him out and regain possession of the town,...

Another very great light has been extinguished too, or rather that brightly shining moon, the great achievement and pride of the East and the West, the Empress Irene. And yet we live and breathe...

Then I let go the Emperor’s hand and . . . to the Empress … I again applied to his wrist … asphyxia. She often signed to me as she wanted me to...

Now the Emperor’s successor had already gone away secretly to the house set apart for him, seeing the Emperor’s … and hastened his going and hurried to the great palace. The city at that...