The Empress Fausta
“I want you to go to Drepanum and bring Crispus to Gaul,” he told Dacius when they finished inspecting the household troops the next...
Faring in small boats
But this tyrant first suppressed the post from Chalcedon to Dacibiza, and then compelled the couriers to go from Constantinople to Helenopolis, however little...
Caesarea was one Evangelius
There is nothing like mentioning one of his ridiculous acts. Among the lawyers at Caesarea was one Evangelius, a man of no mean distinction,...
DIALOGUE WITH PAUL OF NISIBIS
Church Policy
Justinian I (b.483- r.527-d.565)Justinian’s “dialogue” with a Nestorian.St. Emperor Justinian:
DIALOGUE WITH PAUL OF NISIBIS
The Dialogue with Paul of Nisibis is a transcript of...
Violation of the Thracian Land Law
Codex Justinianus:
Coloni Bound to the Soil, c. 530
An earlier law had attached coloni to the soil in provinces of the Empire other than...
Ruling of Justinian to the effect
In all such cases it seems to us sufficiently wrong for the lord to prejudge the absence of his coloni, who, born in the...
Roman territory Marios protested
“Must there always be war, and suffering?” Helena had barely spoken during the spirited discussion, except to make the comment about the barbarians.
“We cannot...
Constantine could stand the strained atmosphere
On other occasions when Constantius had visited them farther and farther apart of late though they had been the small villa had been filled...
Giving half of the Empire to Maximian
Diocletian will rue the day he let Galerius Valerius Maximianus get a foot in the door,” Marios said dourly. “It was bad enough when...
