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But Bryennius, in fear of his life resembled a maniac, and was by no means in need of rest, for how should a man...

He also brought an order from the Emperor to my father to proceed against Basilacius, who in his turn had now assumed the diadem,...

When either side (to wit, Henry, King of Germany, and the Pope) had brought up their armies, and set them in battle array, directly...

As the sickness increased, his weary limbs grew cold and stiff, and in this way he breathed his last. As soon as the two...

His respiration was laboured already and he was beginning to breathe his last, so he again went to his couch and lay down. For...

What happens in every large river is this; when a considerable embankment has been raised by the deposit they bring down, then they flow...

They had caught the black plague. So great a hold had it got on them that, scarcely able to move, worn out with fever...

But as the man he expected to find was nowhere to be seen, and no soldier or officer turned up anywhere, only a few...

But after all it was not Basilacius himself, but a very brave man of his suite who was not a tittle inferior in courage...

Such then were the deeds of the Domestic and a few followers during that night. As soon as dawn smiled upon the earth, and...