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Basilacius, however, was inflexible, but the Thessalonians, through fear of their city being taken and destroyed, granted Comnenus ingress. But Basilacius, when he saw...

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

So from tip to toe this man was well-proportioned, as I have repeatedly heard many say. Now, Homer says of Achilles that when he...

Those who took part in these ceremonies with him and faked the apparitions, will know whether the story is true or false. If it...

Since the aforesaid Gulielmus Mascabeles far surpassed him in wealth and influence, Robert renounced all idea of meeting him openly in battle, and concocted...

A new hospice was built too, called by him the Ptochotropheium,**52 and in this way a mighty stream of gold was poured out for...

38. I am aware that many chroniclers of his life will, in all probability, give an account differing from mine, for in his time...

He did not claim to be the legitimate heir of these kings, but he either invented or proved that he was a collateral relation....

The Emperor’s Bulgarian Expedition43. This thought afflicted the emperor much more than physical suffering, and the harm it produced in him was quite different,...

The Escape Of Alousianus To Bulgaria45. The war had not yet broken out when a most astonishing thing happened — something nearly as amazing...