Saksagan
Zoe and Theodora part 4
8. The prize-money for the soldiers and the revenues devoted to army expenditure were quite unnecessarily diverted and put aside for the use of...
Zoe and Theodora part 5
12. Among others who were living at that time was a native of Dalassa (a most celebrated place) whose name was Constantine. He was...
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 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 50
119. That event marked the change in their fortunes. After being buoyed up by their hopes for a brief interval, and (it must be...
Zoe and Theodora part 51
121. Such was the shameful withdrawal from the Great City of the man who had once contested its throne. Still more shameful was his...
The Lost Phcebe part 12
Another thing that puzzled him greatly after a time and after many hundreds of inquiries was, when he no longer had any particular door-...
Zoe and Theodora part 53
126. His beauty, we are told, was that of Achilles or Nireus.**126 But whereas, in the case of these heroes, the poet’s language, having...
Zoe and Theodora part 54
128. The symptoms of disease were not all immediately apparent. The humours first flowed into his feet, and at once he was compelled to...
Zoe and Theodora part 55
130. Even while I write this history I am still absolutely amazed to think how the man was able to bear the excruciating pain...
