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 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 63
And when those who had been ordered to do so had loosed him from his chains, Constantine gently urged him to make his defence;...
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 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 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 47
112. The emperor, after he had recovered his self-composure, thought it would be disgraceful if he did not get together some soldiers to oppose...
Zoe and Theodora part 46
110. As no favourable reply was forthcoming from the persons to whom these remarks had been addressed — actually they poured forth a torrent...
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...
