. 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:. n the labours of government. In this silken web, the weakness of GLORY AND DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE 243 [976 ] Constantine was forever entangled; but his elder brother felt the impulse ofgenius and the desire of action; he frowned, and the minister was no was the acknowledged sovereign of Constantinople and the provincesof Europe; but Asia was oppressed by two veteran generals, Phocas andSclerus, who, alternatel
. 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:. n the labours of government. In this silken web, the weakness of GLORY AND DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE 243 [976 ] Constantine was forever entangled; but his elder brother felt the impulse ofgenius and the desire of action; he frowned, and the minister was no was the acknowledged sovereign of Constantinople and the provincesof Europe; but Asia was oppressed by two veteran generals, Phocas andSclerus, who, alternately friends and enemies, subjects and rebels, main-tained their independence, and laboured to emulate the example of successfulusurpation. Against these domestic enemies, the son of Romanus first drew his sword,and they trembled in the presence of a lawful and high-spirited first, in the front of battle, was thrown from his horse by the strokeof poison, or an arrow; the second, who had been twice loaded with chains,and twice invested with the purple, was desirous of ending in peace thesmall remainder of his days. As the aged suppliant approached the throne,. Wak Galley, Eighth and Ninth Centuries with dim eyes and faltering steps, leaning on his two attendants, theemperor exclaimed, in the insolence of youth and power: And is thisthe man who has so long been the object of our terror ? After he hadconfirmed his own authority and the peace of the empire, the trophies ofNicephorus and Zimisces would not suffer their royal pupil to sleep in thepalace. His long and frequent expeditions against the Saracens wererather glorious than useful to the empire; but the final destruction ofthe kingdom of Bulgaria appears, since the time of Belisarius, the mostimportant triumph of the Roman arms.^ BASIL II AND HIS SUCCESSORS (976-1054 ) The reign of Basil II is the culminating point of Byzantine eagles of Constantinople flew during his life, in a long career of victo
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