Comparison to the new officials
The Emperor was always very careful to choose for his agents men who were truly of all people the worst scoundrels; and he had...
Pillaging the country
Also everywhere else in the Roman Empire Justinian did the same. Picking out the worst scoundrels he could find, he sold them the offices...
Junilus completed the measure
When Junilus completed the measure of his life, Constantine was appointed Quaestor: a man not unacquainted with law, but exceeding young, and without actual...
No more killing on pain of punishment
“No more killing!” he ordered. ‘The prophecy has been fulfilled! No more killing lest we offend the god.”
“Carry the order to the troops ahead,”...
Diocletian showed no mercy to the prostrate city
With missiles raining upon it night and day even Alexandria could not hold out forever against the might of Rome. After some eight months...
Emperor Diocletians headquarters
Of the siege machines, the ballista, the onager and the catapulta the three most commonly used worked in much the same way. For a...
Chapter VI – Byzantium
One of the oddities Byzantine studies is that it has long attracted homosexual scholars, but virtually none of them have written about Byzantine homosexuality....
Rejecting the commentaries
But the Mishnah, or as they call it the second tradition, we prohibit entirely. For it is not part of the sacred books, nor...
APPENDIX NOVELLA 146 OF JUSTINIAN
8.II.553. Nov.146. Justinian to Areobindas, P.P.
A Permission granted to the Hebrews to read the Sacred Scriptures according to Tradition, in Greek, Latin or any...
