Fausta assured him
“This will be ours one day,” Fausta assured him, running her finger across the marble boundaries of nations and seas. “The whole of it,...
Maximian regarded
Constantine had no reason to suspect that Maximian regarded him as anything other than simply the tribune who headed Diocletian’s personal guard, until he...
Fausta was quite as lovely
“You will be free. I promise it.”
And free he was not entirely to his surprise to meet her chair the next afternoon, according to...
Constantines voice Dacius
“We will gain nothing by dividing our forces.” At the note of assurance in Constantine’s voice Dacius glanced at him sharply. The old soldier...
The hill Dacius saw ahead
“How far ahead are the others?”
“No more than an hour’s march.”
“Then we should be able to attack before the band sent to destroy us...
Fleeing rear guard of Galerius
At the sight of a Roman force appearing seemingly from nowhere to rescue them, the fleeing rear guard of Galerius’ army took courage and...
Distinguishing feature
Another said he stood beside the Emperor as he sat, and of a sudden the face changed into a shapeless mass of flesh, with...
One swoop the estates
I could hardly catalogue all the other people whose estates these two chose to inherit. However, up to the time when the insurrection named...
Heirs of Dionysius
There was in Constantinople a man by the name of Zeno, grandson of that Anthamius who had formerly been Emperor of the West. This...
Armenians under the sword
“For the same reason Crassus risked it several hundred years ago the hope of covering himself with glory with a sudden blow at the...
