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Zoe and Theodora part 61
144. Well, this clown of ours not only took possession of the men’s apartments in the palaces but having wormed his way into the...
Zoe and Theodora part 62
He calculated that there was no difficulty in murdering the emperor, and secondly, he himself had the keys to the secret entrances: he had...
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 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 64
150. When [he empress Theodora and his sister Euprepia, like the goddesses in the poem**132 expressed severe disapproval of these proceedings, and instead of...
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 66
155. The actor fellow, of whom I spoke some time ago, had been in love with this princess before, and he was successful in...
Zoe and Theodora part 13
The doors of the senate were thrown open to nearly all the rascally vagabonds of the market, and the honour was conferred not on...
Zoe and Theodora part 14
32. No man was better endowed by Nature with qualities that endeared him to his subjects. He was a good mixer, winning everyone’s affections...
Zoe and Theodora part 15
I soon mastered the rhetoric enough to be able to distinguish the central theme of an argument and logically connect it with my main...
