Saksagan
Zoe and Theodora part 74
And as for his acumen, that was proved by the profits he made; by the clever ways in which he saved labour; by the...
Zoe and Theodora part 75
Although an ardent student of all branches of rhetoric, he devoted himself to forensic oratory in particular. When delivering a public speech, he cultivated...
Zoe and Theodora part 7
Alliance with this family conferred on the young man extraordinary brilliance, but he still held no important office. Basil’s advisers, because of the hatred...
Zoe and Theodora part 6
Under the pretence or giving him a more important office, he was posted away from the capital. That biased the empress in his favour...
Zoe and Theodora part 65
152. As long as the empress was still alive, his intrigues were more or less secret: he preferred to go and come unseen, under...
Zoe and Theodora part 68
160. As her life drew to its appointed close, when she was on the point of dying, slight changes made their appearance in her...
Zoe and Theodora part 73
173. I could, if I wished, tell you other anecdotes of this sort about Constantine. There are things which a historian would probably reject,...
Zoe and Theodora part 44
These men had been quartered in the depths of Iberia, where they were engaged in repelling a barbarian invasion. There was no hope of...
Zoe and Theodora part 63
And when those who had been ordered to do so had loosed him from his chains, Constantine gently urged him to make his defence;...
Zoe and Theodora part 76
182. These acts are of doubtful interpretation — it depends on your point of view — but there was nothing at all moderate about...
