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For the three stood there sharpening each other’s wits, as if they were boar’s teeth, intent upon rending the Emperor’s arguments. And if any...

Consequently many of the Manichaeans on that occasion went to the priests without any hesitation, confessed their sins and received divine baptism. But many...

For, as all the inhabitants of Philippopolis were Manichaeans except a few, they tyrannized over the Christians there and plundered their goods, caring little...

I rather wished to treat lightly of the doctrine of the Manicha~ans and to explain it very concisely, and even attempt a refutation of...

VIII Not a year had passed before the Emperor heard a rumour that the Comans had crossed the Ister; consequently at the commencement of...

He, as I have said, recounted all that had happened, and the devices the Emperor employed against the Ishmaelites; and the inhabitants of Constantinople...

Part of my history, as I said, I derive from my own memory and part from the men who accompanied the Emperor on his...

But verily that is not so; I swear by the dangers the Emperor underwent for the welfare of the Roman Empire, and the struggles...

VII After this had been done, Constantinople was full of the news of the Emperor’s successes. For in very truth, to what an extent...

For, whenever he had been victorious in war, it was his wont to enquire whether any of his soldiers had been captured or fallen...