The Secret History part 24
As soon as he took over the rule from his uncle, his measure was to spend the public money without restraint, now that he...
The Secret History part 23
For a judge who disregarded its instruction was sentencing himself to death. And many creditors were forced to receipt the bills they had sent...
The Secret History part 22
Some of the opposite party joined this faction so as to get even with the people of their original side who had ill-treated them;...
The Secret History part 21
First the rebels revolutionized the style of wearing their hair. For they had it cut differently from the rest of the Romans: not molesting...
The Secret History part 20
For some he slew without reason, and some he released to struggle with penury, and their fate was worse than that of those who...
The Secret History part 19
By this time he was an old man on the verge of the grave, and so illiterate that he could neither read nor write:...
The Secret History part 18
But when Solomon arrived in Constantinople, the Emperor pardoned him on the ground that the man he killed was a traitor to the Roman...
The Secret History part 17
For they thought the reason for his perjury was not uxoriousness, but his fear of the Empress. But after Theodora died, as I have...
The Secret History part 16
And when he received the monarch’s permission to do this, he left straightway in high spirits, bidding a long farewell to the Roman army...
The Secret History part 15
Since he had been given no funds by the Emperor, he plundered nearly all the Italians living in Ravenna and Sicily, and wherever else...
