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65. An example of this is found in his treatment of the Patriarch Michael.**209 The latter had spoken frankly to him on a certain...
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Nothing on earth restrained him, no proffering of wiser counsels, no fear for the future, no hatred of the mob, none of the other...
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In pursuit of such a policy it was inevitable that he should add to his other victims the priests of the Church. Indeed, he...
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Nor were they satisfied with the presentation of a mere sufficiency to their places of meditation (we had better call them that). The imperial...
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58. Isaac was a devotee of the philosophic life: he abhorred anything that was physically diseased or corrupt. But his hopes were disappointed, for...
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55. This emperor also having quickly met his end — I will pass over his nephew who, after a wretched reign, came to an...
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52. After the death of Basil the Great (Basil the son of Romanus,**204 whose family inherited the Empire to the third generation) his brother,...
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He did this, not because he grudged the Roman Empire the acquisition of new territory, but because he knew that an imperialist policy of...
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48. More than any other man he was laconic in the extreme, not expressing all his ideas in so many words, yet leaving no...
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In fact, they anticipated a time of wonderful prosperity. With regard to the emperor’s character, people who met him only at certain times, when...
