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Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 32

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After writing these verses, on the sixth day before the Nones of October (Oct. 2), at the tenth hour, I entered my boat with...

Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 31

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Having done and said these things they gave to me a letter written and sealed with gold to bring to you; but it -was...

Report of his Mission to Constantinople part 30

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“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

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” 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

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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You have beard the interpretation of the Greeks; hear how that of Liutprand, bishop of Cremona. For I say and not alone do I...