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“Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand in the evil day, having your loins girt about with truth and wearing the breastplate of righteousness, and...

Justinian, unexpectedly restored to health, straightway undertook to put Theodotus to death as a poisoner and a magician. But since he had no proof on which to condemn the man, he tortured friends of...

Later, she followed Hecebolus, a Tyrian who had been made governor of Pentapolis, serving him in the basest of ways; but finally she quarreled with him and was sent summarily away. Consequently, she found...

On the field of pleasure she was never defeated. Often she would go picnicking with ten young men or more, in the flower of their strength and virility, and dallied with them all, the...

Night had already fallen by the time the camp was established. While some of the men ate, others took torches and explored what remained of the buildings of the town, in case any Persians...

“Yes, Your Majesty.”“I should have recognized you from your resemblance to your father, but I was otherwise occupied. Caesar Constantius and I served together once in Pannonia. He is a great general and a...

The tall man was near midstream now, wading at the head of his troops, but the river was deepening rapidly and his armor made the going heavy. Calling to him to seize hold of...

Constantine caught his breath in a gasp of admiration as a sleek galley rounded a point below them and came into their range of vision. Its oars kicked up a spray, which the sun...

“You can thank Galerius for that,” Marios told him. “With your father allied to the House of Maximian by marriage, our new Caesar feared that too much power would be concentrated in the West....

“Now what is all this about?” Marios eased himself into a chair, grimacing from the pain in his leg. “Have you been snooping into your father’s affairs, boy?”“You woke me up last night with...