Saksagan
A Return to the Bazaar
The next afternoon, I walked through the bazaar, casually looking at things I had no intention of buying. To my surprise, I was greeted...
A Visit to the Shop
The shopkeeper’s eyes lit up when he saw me. I must have looked like a potential customer. He quickly invited me upstairs and apologized...
Salonika’s Trade
Salonika, a busy port, is highly desired by Austria and, according to Berlin, will eventually belong to Germany. However, the city’s trade is a...
Galerius prepared carefully
The Empress and her daughter came out just then and Constantine went to call the litter bearers. But from then on, he assigned to...
Illyrian veterans
Tiridates’ laugh boomed out. “How could I, with my back to the river?”Dispatches from the Persian campaign soon began to arrive daily, telling of...
Constantine had somehow expected
“You have changed,” she said.“I’m almost two years older than when you saw me last,” Constantine reminded her. “But I am still a tribune...
Artifice of prayer
HOW ALL ROMAN CITIZENS BECAME SLAVESTheodora too unceasingly hardened her heart in the practice of inhumanity. What she did, was never to please or...
Constantine to move swiftly
There was every reason for Constantine to move swiftly with all the troops he could safely take from duty along the Rhine, since Maximian’s...
Dacius swore a purple
“You look as if you were roughly treated,” he said. “Who unloosed your bonds? Maximian?”Dacius swore a purple oath. “Don’t tell me you were...
Yield up Massilia
“Like Dacius?” He could imagine the story Maximian had told her and which she seemed to have believed.“Or some others.” She had missed entirely...