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Then they travelled across a wide plain covered with Olive trees, and with them travelled an Ethiopian and his two camels, who led a...

There before the cross they laid him. Then they began earnestly to implore God, the Maker of all things, to bring them consolation and...

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

Next he began to inquire how he could put these ideas into effect so that he could despise and renounce the fleeting pleasures of...

Overcome by this unforeseen disaster, the father beat his breast for three days and nights with a sling-stone and then died. The interval of...

It would be cruel, and unchristian, he said, to deprive them of his protection and to leave them at the mercy of others. Then...

Thereupon, as he knew they set out on foraging expeditions at daybreak, he sent for Taticius (he has often been mentioned in this history)...

As the sickness increased, his weary limbs grew cold and stiff, and in this way he breathed his last. As soon as the two...

However Tzachas thought Methymna was beneath consideration, but sailed direct to Chios and took that also at first assault. On receipt of this news...

They had caught the black plague. So great a hold had it got on them that, scarcely able to move, worn out with fever...