Merchants like Cosmas also knew
Merchants like Cosmas also knew their way around land, since by definition the commodities that shipped best were also easy to carry ashore and...
Neither Cosmas nor his contemporaries
Neither Cosmas nor his contemporaries would have spoken of the Roman empire as a free-trade zone, or praised the blessings of a single currency...
The Conpiracy of Aston part 33
They are these:-the city of Antioch in Coele-Syria with its fortifications and its dependency together with Suetium situated on the sea-coast; Dux with all...
The Secret History part 84
The State had also always kept a large number of camels, which carried all the baggage when the Roman army marched against the foe....
The Secret History part 83
As a day’s journey for an active man, they decided on eight stages in some places, in others less, but hardly ever less than...
The Secret History part 82
Now some bore their sufferings in silence; but those of the inhabitants of Tarsus who were Blues, trusting in the favor of the Empress,...
The Secret History part 81
Another thing that happened at this time I must also not fail to tell. One Anatolius was foremost in the Senate of Ascalon. His...
The Secret History part 80
29. Other incidents revealing him as a liar and a hypocrite
I will now show what a liar and hypocrite he was. This Liberius, whom...
The Secret History part 79
But since there was a statute of limitations barring action after thirty years, except in mortgages and certain other matters, where the limit was...
The Secret History part 78
Here is another similar case. There was a certain Faustin, born in Palestine, and of an old Samaritan family, who accepted a nominal Christianity...
