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Justinian similarly veils
Everything we know about Justinian similarly veils him in his robes of state and hides him in his palace. The scandalous stories that circulated...
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...
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...
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...
The civil law of Rome
The law of nature is that which she has taught all animals; a law not peculiar to the human race, but shared by all...
Dacius swore a purple
“You look as if you were roughly treated,” he said. “Who unloosed your bonds? Maximian?”Dacius swore a purple oath. “Don’t tell me you were...
Yield up Massilia
“Like Dacius?” He could imagine the story Maximian had told her and which she seemed to have believed.“Or some others.” She had missed entirely...
Constantine to move swiftly
There was every reason for Constantine to move swiftly with all the troops he could safely take from duty along the Rhine, since Maximian’s...
A Liar and A Hypocrite
Knowing countless other such acts of Justinian, I cannot include them, since the end of this book draws near. In any case, what I...
Their innocent fellow citizens
But since there was a statute of limitations barring action after thirty years, except in mortgages and certain other matters, where the limit was...