Antiochus Strategos part 4
His notices of the Holy Places at Jerusalem, however, are of the highest interest, and some of them are of great archaeological value. Among...
Michael IV part 4
9. Clearly it was not a noble beginning for a man promoted to supreme power, as I have shown. Nevertheless, for a short period...
Antiochus Strategos part 5
I know that it may seem very bold on my part to write this book when there are so many holy priests capable of...
Alexius Part 14
But Bryennius, in fear of his life resembled a maniac, and was by no means in need of rest, for how should a man...
Alexius Part 16
What happens in every large river is this; when a considerable embankment has been raised by the deposit they bring down, then they flow...
Antiochus Strategos part 10
They had caught the black plague. So great a hold had it got on them that, scarcely able to move, worn out with fever...
Alexius Part 17
But as the man he expected to find was nowhere to be seen, and no soldier or officer turned up anywhere, only a few...
Alexius Part 18
But after all it was not Basilacius himself, but a very brave man of his suite who was not a tittle inferior in courage...
Alexius Part 19
Such then were the deeds of the Domestic and a few followers during that night. As soon as dawn smiled upon the earth, and...
Alexius Part 20
Basilacius, however, was inflexible, but the Thessalonians, through fear of their city being taken and destroyed, granted Comnenus ingress. But Basilacius, when he saw...
