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...
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...
Alexius Part 21
The Roman Empire really brought this formidable foe upon herself by affording a pretext for all the wars he waged against us in proposing...
