Saksagan

He was expert in the conception and planning of unlikely designs. He showed no consideration for benefactors, no gratitude to anyone for friendship or...

26. Let me now give some account of this man.**50 His family, on his father’s side, was altogether insignificant and completely obscure. His father...

24. What had taken place was, in reality, the beginning of mighty disasters in the future, and what was, to all appearances, the foundation...

The Empress’s Adoption of Michael**48 and his Promotion to Caesar22.’A very easy measure,’ answered John, ‘and all ready. If our brother **49 were not...

It came about like this. One day he found Michael alone, and cloaking his thoughts in periphrasis, began to address him in the following...

This he did, partly by the despatch of envoys, partly by bribery, partly by annual displays of military strength. Thanks to these precautions neither...

There was something else that he feared, too — something that further prevented him from visiting the empress. The brain-storms no longer attacked him,...

16. So much then for the brothers. Let us return to the emperor. For some time he treated Zoe with marked consideration, but that...

If he did no harm to a soul, yet in his dealings with the people he assumed a fierce expression which terrified one and...

11. Not one of the emperors in my time — and I say this with experience of many in my life, for most of...