War with Scyths part 17
The Sebastocrator took leave of the Emperor and went to the tent assigned to him. And almost immediately the letter-carrier he had sent to...
War with Scyths part 16
The other addressed to the leading men in Dyrrachium, ran as follows : ” As we were informed that Bolcanus was once again meditating...
War with Scyths part 15
The Emperor now heard a rumour of an invasion by the Comans, and learnt from another quarter that Bodinus and his Dalmatians had broken...
War with Scyths part 14
For throughout his lif e he considered it a sin not only to tell a falsehood, but even to appear to have done so,...
War with Scyths part 13
And I really do not know what you are thinking about to talk such nonsense.”On the other’s insisting he dismissed him angrily. Then he...
War with Scyths part 12
That day a new spectacle was seen, for a whole nation, not of ten thousand men only, but surpassing all number together with their...
War with Scyths part 11
The Romans in their dread of the countless Scythians and their horrible covered wagons which they used as walls, sent up one cry for...
War with Scyths part 10
Whilst the Emperor was busy with these reflections, a band of hardy and war-loving mountaineers, numbering about 5,000 in all, deserted to the Emperor...
War with Scyths part 9
On the following day the Emperor moved again intending to seize the ford lower down the river locally called Philocalus; but as he met...
War with Scyths part 8
However the Scythians and the Coman armies remained where they were for some time, while the Com ans harassed the Scythian army by skirmishing....
