 | Sozomen, Saint Photius I (Patriarch of Constantinople) - 1855 - 588 sider
...head of a large army, and encamped on the 1 Zosimus says the same, bvp 808. * His name was Longianus. frontiers of Thrace. He took possession of a city...were discussing the Roman form of government, the philanthrophy of the gmperor, and his promptitude in rewarding merit, when they suddenly formed the... | |
 | Denis Sinor - 1990 - 542 sider
...(present-day Kula) in Moesia and, according to Sozomen (IX, 5), boasted that "it would be easy for him, if he desired to do so, to subjugate every region of the earth." A short while after, many of his troops were induced by the "philanthropy of the emperor" to desert... | |
 | Peter Heather - 2005 - 610 sider
...extravagant claims: 'He [pointed] to the sun, and [declared] that it would be easy for him, if he so desired, to subjugate every region of the earth that is enlightened by that luminary.' Precisely where we should place Uldin before this invasion is unclear. In 400, he had defeated a Roman... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 2007 - 489 sider
...insolently refused to enter into terms of alliance with the Romans. The prefect of the Thracian soldiers made propositions of peace to him, but he replied...Uldis was uttering menaces of this description, and was ordering as large a tribute as he pleased, and that on this condition peace could be established... | |
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Moesia, called Castra Martis, and thence made incursions into the rest of Thrace, and insolently refused to enter into terms of alliance with the Romans. The prefect of the Thracian soldiers made propositions of peace to him, but he replied by pointing... 