...ample garments, a lofty step, and a sonorous voice. In the day they concealed their two-edged poniards, but in the night they boldly assembled in arms, and...their sentence ; masters to enfranchise their slaves ; and fathers to supply the extravagance of their children. The despair of the greens, who were persecuted...

...ample garments, a lofty step, and a sonorous voice. In the day they concealed their two-edged poniards, but in the night they boldly assembled in arms and...voluntary death, were ravished in the presence of their husbands."7 The despair of the greens, who were persecuted by their enemies and deserted by the magistrate,...

...ample garments, a lofty step, and a sonorous voice. In the day they concealed their two-edged poniards, but in the night they boldly assembled in arms and...their sentence ; masters to enfranchise their slaves ; and fathers to supply the extravagance of their children. The despair of the greens, who were persecuted...

...mortal wound with a single stroke of their dagger. The dissolute youth of Constantinople adopted the livery of disorder; the laws were silent, and the bonds of society were relaxed; m creditors were compelled to resign their obligations ; judges to reverse their sentence; masters...

...churches and altars were polluted by atrocious murders ; and it was the boast of the assassins that they could always inflict a mortal wound with a single...their obligations ; judges to reverse their sentence ; and fathers to supply the extravagance of their children. The despair of the greens, who were persecuted...

...their dagger. The dissolute youth if Constantinople adopted the blue livery of disorder; the lavvs were silent, and the bonds of society were relaxed...wives, unless they preferred a voluntary death, were revished in the presence of their husbands.47 The despair of the greens, who were persecuted by their...

...dagger. The dissolute youth of Constantinople adopted the blue livery of disorder; the laws were silent; the bonds of society were relaxed ; creditors were...resign their obligations, judges to reverse their sentences, masters to enfranchise their slaves, fathers to supply the extravagance of their children...

...tolerated in a career of violence and crime hardly to be paralleled in the history of civilized nations. " No place was safe or sacred from their depredations...resign their obligations, judges to reverse their sentences, masters to enfranchise their slaves, fathers to supply the extravagance of their children...

...safe or sacred from their depredations; to gratify either avarice or revenge, they profusely •pilt the blood of the innocent ; churches and altars were...wives, unless they preferred a voluntary death, were revished in die presence of their husbands.47 The despair of the greens, who were persecuted by their...

...Brag. (Hist. Bccles. 1. iv. c. 32); Malala (ii. 138), especially for Antioch; and Theophan. (p. 142). youth of Constantinople adopted the blue livery of...fathers to supply the extravagance of their children; and beautiful boys were torn from the arms of their parents. The despair of the greens, who were persecuted...