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  ''The Amelung to the Balthe, The eagle to the falcon, In need and death, The friend to the friend.''


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id: 16764
title: History of the Wars, Books I and II The Persian War
author: Procopius
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  carrying Roman money to the enemy, and had taken Amida from the Persians Roman Celer and the Persian Aspebedes; both armies then retired homeward into the land of the Persians and the Romans, they come with their the Roman army as great, if not greater, than before; and the Persians the Roman territory, and they came upon their enemy near the city of Sittas and the Roman army came to a place called Attachas, one hundred Persians to the Romans came into the presence of the Emperor Justinian army of the Persians invaded the land of the Romans. Chosroes, son of Cabades, invaded the land of the Romans at the opening And on the following day men were sent to the city by Chosroes in But Chosroes, upon learning that Belisarius with the whole Roman army Zeno, Roman emperor at the time of the Persian king Arsaces, I.


id: 16765
title: History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War
author: Procopius
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  later Boniface and the Romans in Libya, since a numerous army had come So the Vandals, having wrested Libya from the Romans in this way, made Libyans had been Romans in earlier times and had come under the Vandals And on the following day Gelimer commanded the Vandals to place the of the Vandals'' camp happened three months after the Roman army came to the emperor''s army had come from the sea, they began to be in great fear taken by the Moors from the Vandals, III. commands five men to remain on each ship, III. Moors of, defeat the Vandals, III. entered by the Roman army under Belisarius, III. follows the Roman army, III. plans his attack upon the Roman army, III. commanded to precede the Roman army, III. John, a Roman soldier, chosen emperor, III. recovered by the Romans from the Vandals, III. entered by the Roman army, III.


id: 20298
title: Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.
author: Procopius
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  of Goths, Romans, and the soldiers of the emperor, to wait quietly for But as time went on, the Visigoths forced their way into the Roman invited Belisarius to come to Rome, promising to put the city into his the very same time when Belisarius and the emperor''s army were entering previous day had come to the Goths, when they saw Belisarius fighting in were, among the Romans, Belisarius, and among the Goths, Visandus Now the way the Romans came to build the city-wall on both sides of the Romans would be thrown into great confusion, sent to Belisarius some following day Belisarius commanded all the Romans to remove their women Roman of note among the Goths, and he, coming before Belisarius, spoke men among the citizens came to Rome and begged Belisarius to send them a Goths at the time when Vittigis was about to march against Rome, and so


id: 900
title: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 — Folio format
author: Gibbon, Edward
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  ATTENTION: The xml file included in this set has the following warning about the folio file (900-n.nfo): DO NOT DOWNLOAD !!! see #892 for HTML format, #733 for plain text. The Folio format is obsolete. You won''t be able to display the file. If you are tempted to try and download it anyway, you may expect your computer to crash! These files are being retained in the Project Gutenberg collection as examples of the obsolete formats of the early days.


id: 6032
title: Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople
author: Villehardouin, Geoffroi de
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  The Doge of Venice, when he came to the counts and barons, said to Emperor Alexius, not one person on the land or in the city made show Emperor Alexius had made ready a great number of his people, who were The Emperor Alexius remained for a long time on progress, till St. Martin''s Day, and then he returned to Constantinople. day, they came to a good city, called Phile, and took it; and they had which had surrendered to my lord the Emperor Baldwin, a city called Before the Emperor Baldwin left Constantinople, his brother Henry In Constantinople remained the Emperor Baldwin and Count Louis, with Henry, the brother of the Emperor Baldwin, for the people of the land When those who were in the city saw the host of the Emperor Henry the emperor came with all his host, and encamped before the city, and


id: 12916
title: The Secret History of the Court of Justinian
author: Procopius
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  Justinian and Theodora, Belisarius and Libanus and John of Edessa--Forged wills--Theodora and Justinian evil that, if the Romans set up any other emperor in Byzantium, they would jealousy of Justinian and Theodora, who considered it too great, and Immediately after the Empress''s death, Antonina came to Byzantium. Justinian and Theodora, and of the manner in which they rent the Roman Roman Empire; for, as both of them had for a long time been members of So Justinian and Theodora ascended the Imperial throne three days disease, after a reign of nine years, and Justinian and Theodora robbed of their wealth by Justinian and Theodora in the manner which I John, having performed the last offices for his dead father, some time this reason Justinian and Theodora immediately deprived Theodotus of Justinian, the elections never took place at the proper time; the time of the accession of Justinian and Theodora, the magistrates


id: 32330
title: A Struggle for Rome, v. 2
author: Dahn, Felix
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  Arahad cried triumphantly: "Now, Earl Witichis, wilt thou still defend "And the Goths chose Witichis for their King, a man of humble origin, "I do not sleep, Teja," said Witichis; "since when art thou returned? sounded _thy_ cry: ''Hail, King Witichis!'' Thou knowest--God knows--that "King of the Goths," he said, "you speak plainly and nobly, like a Cethegus silently advanced until he stood at Belisarius''s right hand. Cethegus half turned to Belisarius, and said: war, King Witichis!" cried both men with one voice. said to him: ''The Gothic King, Witichis, sends thee greeting. "Forward!" cried King Witichis; "the Goths to the front!" "Prefect of Rome," said Belisarius, reaching out his hand, as he sat on "Cethegus!" cried the friend who held him in his arms, "Belisarius is "Cethegus," he then said, in a grave voice, "Belisarius knows "King of the Goths," he said, as he once again turned round, "is that


id: 32271
title: A Struggle for Rome, v. 1
author: Dahn, Felix
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  "The Emperor Justinus is only a weak old man," said he of the sword, "See," said the King, "I know that thou, son of Hilding, hast received "Yes, King of the Goths, heir of the Amelungs, thou must die; the hand "Thou art wisdom itself, my King, and I was a fool!" cried the old man. "Thou seest," continued the King, stroking the old man''s hand, "that I "Yes, old friend, this right hand, as thou knowest, struck down the The old man ceased; his eyes flashed; he looked like an angry giant. The King laid his left hand on the head of his grandchild, and said "Queen," said the old man, "would that thou wouldst prevent it!" "No, my son; I will come," said Cethegus; "and it is not the old "Look there!" said the old man in a low voice, "is she not as lovely as


id: 32377
title: A Struggle for Rome, v. 3
author: Dahn, Felix
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  On hearing the news, he sent word to Cethegus and Belisarius, through "Thou, Totila, hast the first right to his life," said Hildebrand, "for "But this thou dost not know, Adalgoth," the old man now said, gravely "Men of Rome," said the Byzantine, "Belisarius, the magister militum, "Where art thou, Cethegus?" again sounded the voice of Teja, coming Before King Totila left Rome for Taginæ, he resolved to pay an old debt "The greatest man of our time," said Procopius, "the Prefect of Rome not diadem--thou art Totila, the King of the Goths, whom they call the "I will wait with thee, my master," said Adalgoth, looking at Teja "I thought that thy place was with the right wing," said the King. "Yes," said Teja; "I will be your King. "Well," said Cethegus, "where, then, is this terrible Narses, the great "And King Teja!" said Adalgoth: and kissed the dead man''s mouth.


id: 48762
title: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
author: Gibbon, Edward
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  Reading Of Edward Gibbon''s Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. rendering of Gibbon''s historical and literary masterpiece to be some years ago with the text-to-speech software then available, I barbarian, to have the "little stuffed voices" rendering, in their Having some background in Catholic Church Latin, and two years of queen; or "Geougen"--a collective noun, like "herd" or "squad", to rendering academically correct Latin, but, to venture arrogance, during which time a much improved speech engine became available. There are various types of flaws in this rendering, some correctible, have the time or inclination to reaudit all 120 hours of the reading occasional renderings of "...part i" -(roman numeral one) as "...part text for words "new" to the speech software), the product of Gibbon''s twenty year labor is in itself an empire of English, in arise because the source text itself, Project Gutenberg''s Gibbon,


id: 41929
title: Arethusa
author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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  ''Omobono,'' said Zeno gravely, ''curiosity is unbecoming in a man of ''I am a slave, as these girls are,'' Zoë answered, laying a kindly hand The little slaves looked at Zoë furtively and she smiled. ''This lady,'' said Rustan to Zeno, ''is my wife, and my right hand.'' He ''Yes,'' said Zeno, ''that is the Greek word for young lady. Zoë dug her little nails into the palms of her hands, and looked round ''I know he has been a soldier,'' Zoë answered, for Zeno had told her ''Omobono,'' Zoë said, affecting a very grave tone, ''you know very well saw it, years afterwards, when Zeno was an old man, and you may look ''Good-night, Messer Carlo,'' answered Zoë softly and a little sadly. ''For the last time,'' Zeno said, looking towards Johannes, ''will you ''Clear away all that,'' said Zoë to the men-servants who stood looking


