War with the Scyths part 3

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Comans returned, fully prepared for war with the Scythians, but not finding them and learning that they had come over the passes, occupied...

A Night in the Monastery

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Bata Egypt

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Bosphorus in Istanbul

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