Zoe and Theodora part 9
22. Several persons, on more than one occasion, have urged me to write this history. Among them were not only men in authority and...
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 10
24. Philosophers will tell you that the vain and superfluous are of all things on earth the most despicable. For them the object of...
Zoe and Theodora part 26
Each of her servants had a particular task to perform: one was allotted the duty of bottling the perfumes, another of mixing them, while...
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 11
26. Such is the method I have adopted in composing eulogies of Constantine, but now that I have undertaken to write a history, this...
Zoe and Theodora part 27
Then at other times I have seen her lying on the ground, her tears bathing the earth, while she beat her breasts over and...
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 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 12
Consider how brief are the moments when the sea is calm and peaceful, and how at other times it is swollen, or lashed by...
