Michael IV part 24
This proposition being acceptable to the emperor, further communications passed between them, in great secrecy, as Alousianus had desired. In accordance with the terms...
Alexius Part 30
To prevent the King’s becoming too insupportable by an alliance with Robert, he anticipated him in sending offers of peace to Robert, though before...
Antiochus Strategos part 8
It would be cruel, and unchristian, he said, to deprive them of his protection and to leave them at the mercy of others. Then...
Michael IV part 25
The Emperor’s Tonsure
52. The emperor, before the decease of his body, sought another more spiritual, change. He disdained the imperial rank which he was...
Alexius Part 15
He also brought an order from the Emperor to my father to proceed against Basilacius, who in his turn had now assumed the diadem,...
Alexius Part 31
When either side (to wit, Henry, King of Germany, and the Pope) had brought up their armies, and set them in battle array, directly...
Antiochus Strategos part 9
As the sickness increased, his weary limbs grew cold and stiff, and in this way he breathed his last. As soon as the two...
Michael IV part 26
His respiration was laboured already and he was beginning to breathe his last, so he again went to his couch and lay down. For...
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...
