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
LawsCorpus Iuris Civilis, 6th CenturyAlthough 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 NicomediaIt was midnight before Constantine was able to step down from the throne chair of the audience chamber in his father’s now...
Tribe responsible and the auxiliaries
“I’m not sure I understand all this,” Constantine admitted. “Crocus is an experienced fighter,” Dacius explained, “and the odds were in his favor. If...
Marry the daughter of Maximian Augustus
“She is well cared for, sir,” Constantine said evenly. ‘We both understood it to be the will of the Emperor Diocletian that my father...
A highranking Roman officer
The Caesar of the East tossed his purple cloak on a couch and Constantine saw that he was appareled in the formal regalia of...
