Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 30
“But,” they said, -these things are prohibited; and when the emperor spoke as you say he did, he could not imagine that you would...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 29
” When I came hither he wished it,” I said, ” but since, during my long delay, he has received no news; he thinks...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 28
“But the pope,” I said, “whose simplicity is his title to renown, thought he was writing this to the honor of the emperor, not...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 27
The papal messengers, therefore, being thrown into prison, that offending epistle was sent to Nicephorus in Mesopotamia; whence no one returned to bring an...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 26
But, to increase my calamities, on the day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary the holy mother of God (August 15), there came-an...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 25
When you were besieging Bari only three hundred Hungarians seized five hundred Greeks near Thessalonica and led them into Hungary. Which attempt, inasmuch as...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 24
The aforesaid Hippolytus writes also that not the Greeks but the Franks shall put an end to the Saracens. Encouraged by which prophecy the...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 23
You have beard the interpretation of the Greeks; hear how that of Liutprand, bishop of Cremona. For I say and not alone do I...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 22
Hippolytus, indeed, a certain Sicilian bishop, wrote similarly concerning your empire and our people-I call “our people,” namely, all those who are under your...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 21
As I did this there met us, herded together with goats, the so-called wild asses. But why, I ask, wild asses? Our tame ones...
