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...
Might be expected when attacked by a fever
But in the case of some the pestilence did not come on in this way, but they saw a vision in a dream and...
Commanding Theodorus to take charge
And it fell to the lot of the emperor, as was natural, to make provision for the trouble. He therefore detailed soldiers from the...
Different results with different patients
For example, while some were helped by batlling, others were harmed in no less degree. And of those who received no care many died,...
Everybody pitied them no less than the sufferers
And those who were attending them were in a state of constant exhaustion and had a most difficult time of it throughout. For this...
The Introduction of Michael to the Emperor by his Brother
There, then, is the preface to the story; the sequel came about as follows. Among other persons who served this emperor, before his accession...
Replenish the imperial treasury
Even if the emperor felt compelled to build on a more magnificent scale than anyone else, it was still his duty to care for...
Doubtless it is a beautiful thing
Often, too, the work would cease and then suddenly rise up afresh, slightly bigger or with some more elaborate variety. When rivers flow into...
