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To blazes with all those who tell us there is a spiritual life, and who then declare that its direction lies in the hands...

If I had any information I was on no account to conceal it from her. This was not the first occasion on which I...

Her councillors, moreover, should have impressed this on her, instead of imagining that she would live for ever, always at the same age, or...

While still subject to the limitations of human nature, they behave as though they were demi-gods among us. For the other attributes of Divinity...

It is not my purpose at the moment to describe the object of their choice, but I will say that the man chosen was...

86. Herodotus, the famous Greek historian, is said to have beer the son of Lyxes and Dryo, and was born at Halicarnassus in 484...

97. Sclerena was a niece of Pulcheria, sister of Romanus Sclerus and grand-daughter of Bardas. She had shared Constantine’s exile on Lesbos. She was...

105. The protospatharius Pardus owed his appointment as successor to Maniaces not to any outstanding ability but to the fact that he was known...

116. In September 1047.117. The army of the East was at this time engaged in Armenia Magna.118. In the part near the monastery of...

43. Today, in fact, neither Athens, nor Nicomedeia, nor Alexandria in Egypt, nor Phoenicia, nor even the two Romes (the ancient and lesser Rome,...