Antiochus Strategos part 17
Inside there is the slab on which the body of our Lord lay, and on this slab flfteen lamps of gold burn day and...
Alexius Part 3
Certainly the most effective of his methods for conciliating Tutach was, speaking broadly, a kind of offering the right hand of friendship; his words...
Michael IV part 27
Roman forces in Sicily and it was not long before all Maniaces’ conquests
49. Not strictly correct. John was speaking of his brother-in-law, Stephen, husband...
Alexius Part 38
This excuse Monomachatus made to my father, and tried to conciliate him (I mean my father) and Botaniates, simultaneously, but he also sent a...
Alexius Part 37
Thus he told his tale of woe in detail, and all the false information given about him to the Emperor, and all he had...
Alexius Part 36
He did not after all leave even his son Roger behind, as he had first planned when he appointed him Count of Apulia, but...
Alexius Part 35
But as I write I have to laugh at the thought of these men’s folly and infatuation, and especially at their mutual boastfulness. Robert,...
Alexius Part 34
The first was that the monk in his train was a deceiver, and cheat, and only impersonating the Emperor Michael, and that the whole...
Alexius Part 33
Now, Bohemond took after his father in all things, in audacity, bodily strength, bravery, and untamable temper; for he was of exactly the same...
Alexius Part 32
For what man in his senses would assail so great a father? As for me, I would have thee know that I am arming...
