Possession of priceless goods
Now the Praetor, whenever he found anything very valuable among the stolen goods that came to his notice, was supposed to give it to...
Quaestorship
DEBASING OF THE QUAESTORSHIP
He also had contrived other ways of plundering his subjects (which I will now describe as well as I can) by...
Immediately robbed
Having thus carried away the public wealth, he turned his eye upon his private subjects. Most of them he immediately robbed of their estates,...
Franks hurried back to Robert
Afterwards the Franks hurried back to Robert. When he saw them coming empty-handed and heard all that had befallen them, he blamed them all...
Straightway the barbarian
The Emperor first directing his hand aright, struck at his opponent with his spear, which passed right through his breast, and out at the...
They kept the Emperor upright
And a strange sight it was to behold. For those on the left strove to overthrow him whilst those on the right fixed their...
Godfrey of Bouillon
At that time, too, came Count Godfrey, who had crossed the sea with the other counts and was accompanied by an army of 10,000...
Any acquaintance with military practice
At the sight of the Latin legions, not only did all of the basest class, the foolish and the unwarlike, groan, cry out, and...
Little Christian blood as possible should be shed
He gave that order with this in mind, that when their horses were wounded, the violence of the Gallic attack would languish and the...
