Saksagan
Subject to the ruler of the Bulgarians
The rulers of the Pechenegs and Magyars are the only independent rulers to be accorded the title archontes. In contrast, and also in accordance...
Constantine VIII
Constantine VIII 1025—1028
On the death of Basil, his brother Constantine became emperor for the second time. There was no opposition. As a matter of...
Compassionately embrace his victim
His anger, too, was not lasting, like that of his brother Basil. He quickly relented and was terribly downcast at what he had done....
Commanding Theodorus to take charge
And it fell to the lot of the emperor, as was natural, to make provision for the trouble. He therefore detailed soldiers from the...
Different results with different patients
For example, while some were helped by batlling, others were harmed in no less degree. And of those who received no care many died,...
Everybody pitied them no less than the sufferers
And those who were attending them were in a state of constant exhaustion and had a most difficult time of it throughout. For this...
Articular emperor aspired
These latter added their own quota of evil as fuel to the general conflagration fired by their ruler, and the result was nothing but...
Our Lady’s kindnesses in the past
When the emperor saw this beautiful sight (he was particularly reverent in his veneration for this ikon) he immediately took heart, and holding it...
Look their enemies in the eye
Here were those same men, who had brought a continent to terms, who in their preparations for war and in their military dispositions had...
