The Secret History part 34
These misfortunes, and those that were caused by the Medes, Saracens, Slavs, Antes, and the rest of the barbarians, I described in my previous...
The Secret History part 33
11. How the defender of the faith ruined his subjects
As soon as Justinian came into power he turned everything upside down. Whatever had been...
The Secret History part 32
Now Theodora was fair of face and of a very graceful, though small, person; her complexion was moderately colorful, if somewhat pale; and her...
The Secret History part 31
So Justinian and Theodora ascended the imperial throne three days before Easter, a time, indeed, when even making visits or greeting one’s friends is...
The Secret History part 30
Justinian, unexpectedly restored to health, straightway undertook to put Theodotus to death as a poisoner and a magician. But since he had no proof...
The Secret History part 29
Later, she followed Hecebolus, a Tyrian who had been made governor of Pentapolis, serving him in the basest of ways; but finally she quarreled...
The Secret History part 28
On the field of pleasure she was never defeated. Often she would go picnicking with ten young men or more, in the flower of...
The Secret History part 27
When this woman saw the populace assembled in the amphitheater, she placed laurel wreaths on her daughters’ heads and in their hands, and sent...
The Secret History part 26
How could anyone put Justinian’s ways into words? These and many even worse vices were disclosed in him as in no other mortal nature...
The Secret History part 25
Domitian’s wife was of free birth and otherwise noble; and neither had she herself ever done wrong to anybody, nor had she assented in...
