Saksagan

“What next?” Crocus asked. “Remember Gaul is waiting to acclaim our new Augustus.”“It will take several weeks for the letter to reach Galerius,” Constantine...

“My sole ambition is to do my duty as a soldier and a Roman, Augustus,” Constantine said evenly.“Do you deny trying to turn Fausta’s...

In the week he had been in Rome, he and Fausta had spent every possible moment together and his desire for her had risen...

“Are you sure you aren’t spinning daydreams again?” “Centurions run the army and through it the Empire; you should know that by now. I...

Justinian, unexpectedly restored to health, straightway undertook to put Theodotus to death as a poisoner and a magician. But since he had no proof...

Later, she followed Hecebolus, a Tyrian who had been made governor of Pentapolis, serving him in the basest of ways; but finally she quarreled...

On the field of pleasure she was never defeated. Often she would go picnicking with ten young men or more, in the flower of...

Flocks of birds rose into flight, stirred from their feeding by the passage of so many mounted men. And from the jungle along the...

Constantine smiled. “Sometimes I wonder why I listen to these wild tales of yours ”“Because you know they’re true. Empires are built, and maintained,...

“Somewhere between here and Busiris or Coptos, you became a man,” he said. “I’m sorry about Minervina. She was a lovely child.” “It has...