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Such growth meant that central government could know local affairs, and thus meddle in them, with much greater accuracy and timeliness than ever before....

Justin remained on the throne for almost nine years, but he was neither young nor forceful nor well connected nor well educated. The younger...

Galerius, however, had no intention of offering refuge to the old troublemaker, so Maximian was forced to flee again, this time to Arles, where...

At Arles the Massilotes had built an important trading station in the time of the early Phoenicians, before the luckless Queen Dido of Tyre...

“There is no hurry,” he assured her. “I plan to remain in Arles for a while; it will be easier to keep in touch...

The sermon was quickly finished and the people filed out. The Empress and Lady Valeria went down an aisle along one side of the...

“I am no soothsayer, as the priests of Apollo claim to be.” Eusebius appeared to take no umbrage at his words or manner. “But...

“With the army Galerius will lead against them this time, they will be too busy to destroy abandoned buildings,” Constantine assured him. “In less...

“The Emperor was concerned about the arsenal at Damascus,” Constantine explained. “And he wanted to know what is really happening on the Persian frontier.”“The...

Again there was a brief colloquy, at the end of which Josiah reported: “He knows of a caravan route to the neighborhood of Circesium...