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Zoe and Theodora part 18
43. Today, in fact, neither Athens, nor Nicomedeia, nor Alexandria in Egypt, nor Phoenicia, nor even the two Romes (the ancient and lesser Rome,...
Zoe and Theodora part 82
The function of Rhetoric is not merely to deceive by persuasive argument, or to deck itself out with ambiguous sentiments: it is an exact...
Zoe and Theodora part 43
For his part, once he was garbed in an emperor’s apparel, he lorded it over his supporters in a dictatorial and truly imperial fashion,...
Zoe and Theodora part 81
196. The outcome of this interview reacted instantly on me. I could neither sleep nor rest because of it, and it was equally difficult...
Zoe and Theodora part 78
187. It was not merely the exceptional beauty of the whole, composed as it was of most beautiful parts, but just as much the...
Zoe and Theodora part 45
At break of day they were all in position before the walls, not in a confused mob, nor massed together in one great body,...
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 83
In fact, he sent me other messages, of quite a different tenor, in which he congratulated me on preferring the spiritual life and actually...
Zoe and Theodora part 84
There were certain factors that made her influence with them all-powerful: the fact that she had been born in the purple; her gentle character;...
Zoe and Theodora part 79
Many a time the emperor trusted me with secret despatches and ordered me to write them for him (he recognized my patriotism and my...
