Michael IV part 3
5. So lived Romanus and such was the funeral with which he was honoured. Despite the work and expense involved in the building of...
Second Battle with Heresy part 6
The Emperor enjoined these men to guard the fortified city very strictly, and said that if the Comans did approach, they were not to...
Second Battle with Heresy part 22
This cross-bow is a bow of the barbarians quite unknown to the Greeks; and it is not stretched by the right hand pulling the...
Second Battle with Heresy part 7
The Comans drew up their lines too, and stood right in front of the Romans; however, they did not attack either. This was carried...
Second Battle with Heresy part 23
For the rules concerning priests are not the same among the Latins as they are with us ; For we are given the command...
Second Battle with Heresy part 8
He forthwith ordered Constantine Euphorbenus to select a sufficient number of the Counts under his command, and with them to effect an entrance into...
Second Battle with Heresy part 24
Then he discovered a sack of barley-cakes and began throwing out the barley-cakes from the sack as though they were stones, as if he...
Second Battle with Heresy part 9
IV When the Emperor learnt of the persistency of the Comans at Adrianople and the frequent battles there, he judged it necessary to leave...
Second Battle with Heresy part 10
Diogenes received him well and enquired what he must do to accomplish his object; to this the other replied, ” Do you see this...
Second Battle with Heresy part 11
Meanwhile the Emperor, still at Anchialus, heard that the Comans were dispersed for foraging purposes over the adjacent territories, so moved away and occupied...