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Consider how brief are the moments when the sea is calm and peaceful, and how at other times it is swollen, or lashed by...

26. Such is the method I have adopted in composing eulogies of Constantine, but now that I have undertaken to write a history, this...

24. Philosophers will tell you that the vain and superfluous are of all things on earth the most despicable. For them the object of...

22. Several persons, on more than one occasion, have urged me to write this history. Among them were not only men in authority and...

She spoke openly on the subject to her personal bodyguard and household staff, and when she saw that they were unanimous in their support...

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...

Under the pretence or giving him a more important office, he was posted away from the capital. That biased the empress in his favour...

12. Among others who were living at that time was a native of Dalassa (a most celebrated place) whose name was Constantine. He was...

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...

The virtue of well-doing is most characteristic of those who govern, and where discrimination is made, where the particular circumstances and the fortune of...