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Anonymus Valesianus
Our chief sources for the story of Boethius’s end are two. The first is the Anonymus Valesianus, a chronicle of Theoderic’s years in power....
Constantius is married to Theodora
“But only because my father moved from Milan into Gaul, when yours took his army to Britain, and secured the Rhine crossing at Colonia...
Britain and Spain
“The same way emperors have been destroyed before, by death,” she said calmly. “After all, the people called for you at Diocletian’s abdication. They...
Escape from Nicomedia
“Why are you hiding like a criminal, Constantine?” she demanded.
“Didn’t Dacius tell you?”
She wrinkled her nose in a wry expression. “Dacius doesn’t approve of...
Vultures serving only Galerius
“We see too little of you these days, nephew,” Marios greeted him warmly. “Are your duties so onerous?”
“Not so much my duties as my...
Christians invoked the power
Carinus ignored him and began to take testimony. A servant swore that the odor of brimstone had filled the air at the time of...
East and the hierarchy of his appointees
Galerius had become emperor in fact, if not in name, during Diocletian’s absence. With the old ruler still ailing, he continued to control the...
Wealth of Romans
HOW HE SEIZED ALL THE WEALTH OF THE ROMANS AND THREW IT AWAY
How he seized all wealth I will next discuss: recalling first a...
Distinguishing feature
Another said he stood beside the Emperor as he sat, and of a sudden the face changed into a shapeless mass of flesh, with...
One swoop the estates
I could hardly catalogue all the other people whose estates these two chose to inherit. However, up to the time when the insurrection named...
