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...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 20
I answered him: “Those princes are nobles of the first rank and vassals of my master; and, if he see that your army attacks...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 19
But mark how impiously he had sworn. These things were said and done on the thirteenth day before the Calends of August (July 20)...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 17
I wish you might believe me, and I know you will believe me, that you with four hundred of your warriors can slay that...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 16
To this he did not permit me to reply; but, although desired to go away, he ordered me to return to his table. His...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 15
Do you wish for worse scandal than that he calls himself emperor, or that he usurps for himself the provinces of our empire? Both...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 14
Faith is there not young but old where works do not accompany it; but faith is scorned, as it were, for its age, like...
Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 13
When eight days had passed and the Bulgarians had already departed, thinking that I thought very highly of his table he compelled me, ill...
