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The cubicula assigned to Constantine was barely large enough to contain a sleeping pallet which could be rolled up in the daytime, enlarging the...

Centurion Dacius was seated behind a table in a room at the end of the long barracks building. His skin was burned to a...

Just inside the compound a sentry leaned upon his spear talking to another soldier, but he paid no attention to Constantine until the youth...

Owing to my oratorical skill, I was introduced at court and became secretary to the reigning emperor, none other than Constantine, head of the...

Having thus given a brief outline of the man, I will now proceed to a fuller description and fill in the details, as I...

Constantine X 1059 – 1067Constantine Ducas Ruled the Roman Empire for Seven Years**230I will abbreviate my account of this emperor as far as is...

What happened next? I will tell you. An illness of all unusual and painful character befell Romanus. Actually, the whole of his body became...

In fact, he made him servant of the bedchamber, and in order that the young man might do this office, deliberately abandoned his wife...

She clung to him all the closer. Her kisses became more passionate, she truly loving him, he in no way desiring her (for she...