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 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...
John of Damascus part 29
In both East and West the reverence we pay to images has crystallized into formal ritual. In the Latin Rite the priest is commanded...
Antiochus Strategos part 26
Soon after he came there, the archbishop St. Boniface, Burchard and Wizo consecrated him and invested him with the sacred authority of the episcopate....
Antiochus Strategos part 25
The Supreme Pontiff, in whom is vested the highest authority, at once replied that his command was sufficient permission, and he ordered him to...
War with the Scyths part 25
Each wheel rebounded at least a cubit’s length from the wall, and through their rims springing back from the wall they seemed to be...
War with the Scyths part 24
XI After taking three days’ rest there he moved on to Tzouroulus. He contemplated remaining there for some time, and therefore had an entrenched...
War with the Scyths part 23
As he was expecting the Scythians to attack he did not sleep at all nor even doze a little, but the whole night long...
War with the Scyths part 22
Thus it came about that both arrnies remained stationary till the evening, and then when night fell, both returned to their own camps without...
War with the Scyths part 21
Shortly Neantzes approached the Emperor and dismounting from his horse, asked him for another, and the Emperor at once gave him one of the...
