War with the Scyths part 3
The floor of this room was paved with marbles and the walls were panelled with it but not with ordinary sorts nor even with...
John of Damascus part 31
The count paid the expenses. Soon after, at his death, by his will (dated 3 July, 1636) he left considerable property to the chapter...
Antiochus Strategos part 13
At that time there were seven companions with Willibald and he made the eighth. Almost at once they were arrested by the pagan Saracens,...
War with the Scyths part 4
And later he devoted himself to history, and at the suggestion of my mistress mother, I mean the Empress Irene, he composed a work...
War with the Scyths part 9
After saying this and encouraging the others, he was the first to dash like a firebrand upon the Scythians and struck at the first...
Antiochus Strategos part 3
How many souls were slain in the reservoir of Mamel! How many perished of hunger and thirst! How many priests and monks were massacred...
Antiochus Strategos part 4
His notices of the Holy Places at Jerusalem, however, are of the highest interest, and some of them are of great archaeological value. Among...
Antiochus Strategos part 5
I know that it may seem very bold on my part to write this book when there are so many holy priests capable of...
Antiochus Strategos part 6
There before the cross they laid him. Then they began earnestly to implore God, the Maker of all things, to bring them consolation and...
War with the Scyths part 13
The Comans returned, fully prepared for war with the Scythians, but not finding them and learning that they had come over the passes, occupied...
