Mothers kinspeople
Only the picked group of Imperial Guards Constantine had selected to accompany the Emperor into retirement occupied the top platform besides Diocletian and Carinus,...
Be selected by Galerius
“And the new Caesars?”
“They will be selected by Galerius. Your father has agreed to this, rather than accept Maxentius. But you will be well...
As Augustus of the West
“Are you sure my father will not be so tempted?” Constantine asked.
“Constantius and I were comradesinarms, so I know he places honor above every...
King Tiridates
Night had already fallen by the time the camp was established. While some of the men ate, others took torches and explored what remained...
Emperor with high favor
There remained, while he ruled the Romans, no sure faith in God, no hope in religion, no defense in law, no security in business,...
Received from Hecebolus
This Macedonia, they say, greeted Theodora at the time of her arrival from Egypt and Libya; and when she saw her badly worried and...
Destroyed their subjects
So quenchless was his thirst for human blood; and with his wife, intent on this end, he neglected no possible excuse for slaughter. For...
Caesar Constantius
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“I should have recognized you from your resemblance to your father, but I was otherwise occupied. Caesar Constantius and I served together...
Constantine and Dacius had dismounted
The tall man was near midstream now, wading at the head of his troops, but the river was deepening rapidly and his armor made...
Traditional weapon among the Dalmatian troops
At another time Constantine would have been interested in seeing it, for a group of Illyrian legionnaires were demonstrating the use of martiobarbuli, the...
