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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 60
The clown put his arms round the emperor’s neck and kissed him, over and over again, on the face ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘he has...
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 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 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 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...
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...
