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Zoe and Theodora part 70

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I was not deceived by appearances myself, though, and I knew that he had a temper, and that he held it in check, as...

Zoe and Theodora part 69

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Suppose the historian were allowed to return favour for favour, in the case of someone who had been friendly to him in the past,...

Zoe and Theodora part 68

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160. As her life drew to its appointed close, when she was on the point of dying, slight changes made their appearance in her...

Zoe and Theodora part 67

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Surely nobody could surpass her in that good quality, for she depended wholly on God, ascribed all events to His influence, thought all things...

Zoe and Theodora part 66

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155. The actor fellow, of whom I spoke some time ago, had been in love with this princess before, and he was successful in...

Zoe and Theodora part 65

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152. As long as the empress was still alive, his intrigues were more or less secret: he preferred to go and come unseen, under...

Zoe and Theodora part 64

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150. When [he empress Theodora and his sister Euprepia, like the goddesses in the poem**132 expressed severe disapproval of these proceedings, and instead of...

Zoe and Theodora part 63

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And when those who had been ordered to do so had loosed him from his chains, Constantine gently urged him to make his defence;...

Zoe and Theodora part 62

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He calculated that there was no difficulty in murdering the emperor, and secondly, he himself had the keys to the secret entrances: he had...

Zoe and Theodora part 61

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144. Well, this clown of ours not only took possession of the men’s apartments in the palaces but having wormed his way into the...

Discovering Perge

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