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“Please forgive my brother for being a bore, Tribune,” she said with a dazzling smile. “Word of how you stopped the whole army of...

Through the crowdlined streets of the city, many of whose people had never even seen the Senior Augustus, the procession moved at a majestic...

The triumph of Diocletian and Maximian could hardly bear comparison with previous ceremonials marking the entry of Rome’s great heroes into the city after...

“No more killing!” he ordered. ‘The prophecy has been fulfilled! No more killing lest we offend the god.”“Carry the order to the troops ahead,”...

With missiles raining upon it night and day even Alexandria could not hold out forever against the might of Rome. After some eight months...

Of the siege machines, the ballista, the onager and the catapulta the three most commonly used worked in much the same way. For a...

Justinian I (b.483- r.527-d.565): Novel 137,Regulating Church RitualThe concept of a free and independent Church was unacceptable to Justinian. He regarded himself as head...

And one of the Jews, seeing these things, approached one of those known to the emperor and said: “These treasures I think it inexpedient...

Procopius: The Reconquest of Africa, 534On the Wars IV.9Justinian’s program of renovatio of the Roman Empire, expressed by his building program, his re-organization of...

So there grows up in them against their fellow men a hostility which has no cause, and at no time does it cease or...