 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...wound with a single stroke of their dagger. The dissolute youth of Constantinople adopted the blue p livery of disorder ; the laws were silent, and the...voluntary death, were ravished in the presence of their husbands. 47 The despair of the greens, who were persecuted by their enemies, and deserted by the magistrate,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 736
...of private houses ; and fire was employed to facilitate the attack or to conceal the crimes of those factious rioters. No place was safe or sacred from...voluntary death, were ravished in the presence of their husbands. The despair of the greens, who were persecuted by their enemies and deserted by the magistrate,... | |
 | Peter Cosgrove - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...blues. Justinian favored the blues, to the extent even of paralyzing the standard legal processes: The dissolute youth of Constantinople adopted the...resign their obligations; judges to reverse their sentences; . . . noble matrons were prostituted to the lust of their servants; beautiful boys were... | |
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No place was safe or sacred from their depredations; to gratify either avarice or revenge, they profusely spilt the blood of the innocent; churches and altars were polluted by atrocious murders; and it was the boast of the assassins, that their dexterity... 
