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With old-fashioned arrogance she would find fault with most of his actions. She would find fresh causes for complaint and then, when she saw that he was angry, quietly withdraw with a glance of...

At this stage I would like to describe a second revolt against the emperor, a revolt more terrible even than the first. Let me go back therefore to the beginning of the story. First...

97. Personally, I know of no power of divination possessed by the man. I attribute the phenomenon to an easy-going and carefree disposition. Men who have an eye for trouble, men who know that...

Our men, meanwhile, engaged them with stones from above and fought them off with their cutlasses. Greek fire, too, was hurled at them, and the Russians, being unable to see now, threw themselves into...

Such were the proposals they put forward, either because they imagined that there were springs of gold in our domains, or simply because they had decided to fight in any case. The terms were...

The Russian Upheaval and the Revolt of Tornicius90. Indeed, this lack of vigilance was the cause of the war against the barbarians, the war which followed the crushing of Maniaces’s revolt.**l09 Russian vessels, almost...

87. When the army came back, most of the soldiers were decorated with crowns, in honour of the victory. They were now encamped near the walls, in front of the city, and Constantine decided...

Then, suddenly, he was hit in the right side. It was not a superficial wound, and the blood flowed freely at once from the deep gash. Apparently he was unaware of the blow at...

Then with his army he crossed over to the opposite mainland, after avoiding the attention of all the coastguards. None of his adversaries dared to attack him; without exception, they retired to a safe...

80. The envoys he sent out to him were intended neither to flatter, nor simply to smooth out his troubles and bring him back to the path of virtue. Their task, to put it...