Perhaps killed those you love
“No!” the crowd thundered.
“They have attacked you in your homes, perhaps killed those you love. What shall be their punishment?”
“Throw them to the beasts!”...
Lovely pillared gallery
The main structure was in the form of a somewhat irregular quadrangle, whose east and west sides were over seven hundred feet long, the...
Galerius snapped angrily
As Severus moved to his place behind Galerius, Carinus picked up the scroll and began to read from it again: “As Caesar of the...
Aurelius Valerius Maximianus Herculius
With his own hands Diocletian placed upon Galerius’ head a pearlstudded circlet and draped a robe of rich purple about the shoulders of the...
Tribe responsible and the auxiliaries
“I’m not sure I understand all this,” Constantine admitted. “Crocus is an experienced fighter,” Dacius explained, “and the odds were in his favor. If...
Marry the daughter of Maximian Augustus
“She is well cared for, sir,” Constantine said evenly. ‘We both understood it to be the will of the Emperor Diocletian that my father...
A highranking Roman officer
The Caesar of the East tossed his purple cloak on a couch and Constantine saw that he was appareled in the formal regalia of...
Impartiality led to the disclosure of secrets
So long as a trial was in progress there was no prejudice for or against either litigant, plaintiff or defendant, and both were cross-examined...
The illness became less sever
These events took place in the evening, and not long after Isaac, now utterly despairing both of his throne and his life, allowed himself...
The insignia of the sovereign
I will dwell for a few moments on this affair and the reasons for it. It was mid-day, and the emperor was suffering from...
