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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 Emperor’s malice was also directed against the astrologer. Accordingly, magistrates appointed to punish thieves also abused the astrologers, for no other reason than...

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...

These misfortunes, and those that were caused by the Medes, Saracens, Slavs, Antes, and the rest of the barbarians, I described in my previous...

11. How the defender of the faith ruined his subjectsAs soon as Justinian came into power he turned everything upside down. Whatever had been...

Now Theodora was fair of face and of a very graceful, though small, person; her complexion was moderately colorful, if somewhat pale; and her...

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...

Justinian, unexpectedly restored to health, straightway undertook to put Theodotus to death as a poisoner and a magician. But since he had no proof...

Later, she followed Hecebolus, a Tyrian who had been made governor of Pentapolis, serving him in the basest of ways; but finally she quarreled...

On the field of pleasure she was never defeated. Often she would go picnicking with ten young men or more, in the flower of...