Crossed the Rhine in 406
The war band we call the Vandals had crossed the Rhine in 406, far from Rome, when Honorius’s and Stilicho’s attention was focused elsewhere....
The skirmishes at the beginning of Khusro’s reign
The skirmishes at the beginning of Khusro’s reign concluded with what both sides called the “endless peace” of 532, purchased by Justinian for a...
Maximian regarded
Constantine had no reason to suspect that Maximian regarded him as anything other than simply the tribune who headed Diocletian’s personal guard, until he...
Fausta was quite as lovely
“You will be free. I promise it.”
And free he was not entirely to his surprise to meet her chair the next afternoon, according to...
Fausta assured him
“This will be ours one day,” Fausta assured him, running her finger across the marble boundaries of nations and seas. “The whole of it,...
Britain and the channel
“Why not go beyond it?” Constantine bent over the map that occupied the top of the table. “Just north of a line drawn eastward...
Far north of the Antonine Wall
Constantine, however, spoke before his father could answer. “I still say I must earn whatever honor shall come to me,” he insisted. “Name me...
Roman rule had brought to Britain
Scrupulously treating the giant Bonar with the respect due a local king, he had taken him on a tour of the countryside, letting him...
Italians living in Ravenna
Totila, indeed, was willing enough to meet him before his city walls, but could not catch him there, since like the rest of the...
Word of honor to Photius
Now everybody took it for granted that Belisarius had arranged this with his wife and made the agreement about the expedition with the Emperor,...
