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They handed him the Emperor’s letter in which the Emperor stated that he hoped to marry the boy to one of my sisters, and...

The one was to hold him as a sort of hostage, and the second was to win Gabras’ affection; with the idea that if...

The Emperor then summoned his own brother, I mean the Sebastocrator Isaac, and his son John, and after a long conversation with them, concluded...

The Sebastocrator took leave of the Emperor and went to the tent assigned to him. And almost immediately the letter-carrier he had sent to...

The other addressed to the leading men in Dyrrachium, ran as follows : ” As we were informed that Bolcanus was once again meditating...

The Emperor now heard a rumour of an invasion by the Comans, and learnt from another quarter that Bodinus and his Dalmatians had broken...

For throughout his lif e he considered it a sin not only to tell a falsehood, but even to appear to have done so,...

And I really do not know what you are thinking about to talk such nonsense.”On the other’s insisting he dismissed him angrily. Then he...

That day a new spectacle was seen, for a whole nation, not of ten thousand men only, but surpassing all number together with their...

The Romans in their dread of the countless Scythians and their horrible covered wagons which they used as walls, sent up one cry for...