. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. The Persian alliance restored the troops of the East to the defence ofEurope; and Maurice, who had supported for ten years the insolence ofthe chagan, declared his resolution to march in person against the bar-barians. In the space of two centuries, none of the successors of Theodosiushad appeared in the field; their lives were supinely spent in the palace ofConstantinople, and the Greeks could no longer understand that the
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. The Persian alliance restored the troops of the East to the defence ofEurope; and Maurice, who had supported for ten years the insolence ofthe chagan, declared his resolution to march in person against the bar-barians. In the space of two centuries, none of the successors of Theodosiushad appeared in the field; their lives were supinely spent in the palace ofConstantinople, and the Greeks could no longer understand that the nameof emperor, in its primitive sense, denoted the chief of the armies of therepublic. The martial ardour of Maurice was opposed by the grave flatteryof the senate, the timid superstition of the patriarch, and the tears of theempress Constantina ; and they all conjured him to devolve on some meanergeneral the fatigues and perils of a Scythian campaign. Deaf to their advice and entreaty, the emperor boldly advanced sevenmiles from the capital; the sacred ensign of the cross was displayed in thefront, and Maurice reviewed, with conscious pride, the arms and numbers. A Byzantine Sacred Vessel of the veterans who had fought and conquered beyond the Tigris. Anchialussaw the last term of his progress by sea and land. He solicited, without suc-cess, a miraculous answer to his nocturnal prayers ; his mind was confoundedby the death of a favourite horse, the encounter of a wild boar, a storm ofwind and rain, and the birth of a monstrous child; and he forgot that thebest of omens is to unsheathe our sword in the defence of our country. Underthe pretence of receiving the ambassadors of Persia, the emperor returned toConstantinople, exchanged the thoughts of war for those of devotion, anddisappointed the public hope by his absence and the choice of his blind partiality of fraternal love might excuse the promotion of hisbrother Peter, who fled with equal disgrace from the
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