Eusebius explained
“With the army Galerius will lead against them this time, they will be too busy to destroy abandoned buildings,” Constantine assured him. “In less...
Eusebius admitted
The sermon was quickly finished and the people filed out. The Empress and Lady Valeria went down an aisle along one side of the...
Emperor pretended to be no less outraged
This Damian was president of the local Blues; and when the news came to Constantinople, the indignant Blues there made a great uproar throughout...
Reduced to beggary
Later Mamillan also died, Anatolius’s son-in-law, leaving one daughter, who of course inherited his estate. While her mother was still living, this daughter too...
Eudemon died
It might not be out of the way for me to tell a sequel of this incident. This Eudemon died a little later, leaving...
The civil law of Rome
The law of nature is that which she has taught all animals; a law not peculiar to the human race, but shared by all...
Most difficult undertaking
After having concluded this work and collected it all in a single volume under Our illustrious name, raising Ourself above small and comparatively insignificant...
Corpus Iuris Civilis 6th Century
Laws
Corpus Iuris Civilis, 6th Century
Although Law as practiced in Rome had grown up as a type of case law, this was not the “Roman...
The official panegyrists
His brief speech finished the official panegyrists had spent hours earlier delivering the customary final orations in honor of the dead Constantine turned toward...
Imperial Courier to Galerius
Galerius in Nicomedia
It was midnight before Constantine was able to step down from the throne chair of the audience chamber in his father’s now...
