Empress Prisca and Lady Valeria
The fire that consumed the scrolls and furnishings of the Christian church at Nicomedia marked the beginning of a holocaust that soon swept from...
Decurion Paulos
“Search the building,” he ordered the men behind him. “Take out the benches and set them afire in the square with whatever other furniture...
Put the Christian to death
Take him before a magistrate so he can be properly charged and imprisoned to await trial,” he ordered, and the three marched off, the...
Application of Patria Potestas
But either each one will employ those known to be free men, or will dismiss him who feigns freedom, fearing that he will be...
Claudian senatusconsultus
Vll.24.i. Since in our times, in which we take great pains for the liberty of our subjects, we consider it ungodly that certain women...
No more killing on pain of punishment
“No more killing!” he ordered. ‘The prophecy has been fulfilled! No more killing lest we offend the god.”
“Carry the order to the troops ahead,”...
Diocletian showed no mercy to the prostrate city
With missiles raining upon it night and day even Alexandria could not hold out forever against the might of Rome. After some eight months...
Emperor Diocletians headquarters
Of the siege machines, the ballista, the onager and the catapulta the three most commonly used worked in much the same way. For a...
Accusations against the man
To my astonishment, he displayed extraordinary pleasure, and when I asked him why, he replied: ‘Because if you must know, I have heard many...
Exiles cannot share in such pleasures
They might have lost their hands or been mutilated in some other way. Instead, some of them were forcibly shaved and the rest condemned...
