The Secret History part 44
And even buying Leo’s support gave no certainty, for Justinian was quite willing to take money from both sides: he felt no guilt at...
The Secret History part 43
Under this reign of violence nothing was stable, but the balance of justice revolved in a circle, inclining to whichever side was able to...
The Secret History part 42
For his constant wakefulness, his privations and his labors were undergone for no other reason than to contrive each day ever more exaggerated calamities...
The Secret History part 41
For if there were an ever infamous, he had no scruple against making a law and then repudiating it. Nor were his decisions made...
The Secret History part 40
Furthermore he committed an inconceivable number of murders for the same cause: for in his zeal to gather all men into one Christian doctrine,...
The Secret History part 39
Furthermore some of Theodora’s lovers, while she was on the stage, say that at night a demon would sometimes descend upon them and drive...
The Secret History part 38
And they say his mother said to some of her intimates once that not of Sabbatius her husband, nor of any man was Justinian...
The Secret History part 37
For Chosroes refused to let this John go, charging that the Romans had disregarded the terms of the truce, as a pledge of which...
The Secret History part 36
The Emperor’s malice was also directed against the astrologer. Accordingly, magistrates appointed to punish thieves also abused the astrologers, for no other reason than...
The Secret History part 35
A similar law w as then passed against the Samaritans, which threw Palestine into an indescribable turmoil.
Those, indeed, who lived in my own Caesarea...
