Saksagan

Again there was a brief colloquy, at the end of which Josiah reported: “He knows of a caravan route to the neighborhood of Circesium that is little used, sir. The way is rough, though...

“Tell him to buy the caravan from this man and resell it later for what he can get. He will be paid the difference with a draft on the Imperial Treasury.”“It shall be done,...

“I’m not sure I understand all this,” Constantine admitted. “Crocus is an experienced fighter,” Dacius explained, “and the odds were in his favor. If he had killed you during what was called an exhibition,...

“She is well cared for, sir,” Constantine said evenly. ‘We both understood it to be the will of the Emperor Diocletian that my father divorce her and marry the daughter of Maximian Augustus.” He...

The Caesar of the East tossed his purple cloak on a couch and Constantine saw that he was appareled in the formal regalia of a highranking Roman officer. His sandals were laced with thongs...

And he still clutched his naked sword in his right hand, his face was stained with his own blood, his head was bare, and his ruddy, gleaming hair was streaming over his eyes and...

Having re-arranged the whole army in this manner, he himself started along the seacoast in order to attack the Frankish army from the front. The barbarians appointed for the rear attack, after passing through...

VI Such, you see, were Robert’s plans and intentions. The Emperor’s on the other hand were different, more subtle and more clever. Both the leaders, however, kept their troops in camp whilst meditating upon...