Saksagan
Maxentius and Maximian
“More like Vesuvius in eruption,” Dacius said dryly. “Rome is angry enough to leave the Empire, if it could, but Maxentius and Maximian have...
Treves and other centers
Constantine himself led an austere life and there was a minimum of luxury in the palace, so the major part of the accumulation in...
Centuries emperormakers
In spite of all the beauty around him, the peaceful and almost bucolic life of Salonae held no lure to an active and ambitious...
Armenia and the kingdom of Tiridates
It was a clever scheme, Constantine conceded. By burying him in the East, Galerius would avoid the trouble with Constantius that would surely come,...
Same mistake before Galerius
“Don’t tell me you want to stay, after moping around like a lovesick swain for three months.”
“I intend to go to Nicomedia, if only...
Possession of priceless goods
Now the Praetor, whenever he found anything very valuable among the stolen goods that came to his notice, was supposed to give it to...
Codex Justinianus
But if any one were born either of a slave and a bondwoman or of a female slave and a bondman, he should follow...
Quaestorship
DEBASING OF THE QUAESTORSHIP
He also had contrived other ways of plundering his subjects (which I will now describe as well as I can) by...
Immediately robbed
Having thus carried away the public wealth, he turned his eye upon his private subjects. Most of them he immediately robbed of their estates,...
Application of Patria Potestas
But either each one will employ those known to be free men, or will dismiss him who feigns freedom, fearing that he will be...
