The Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire volume 10
The Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire volume 10
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407), and was devoutly borrowed from St. George of Cappadocia.
'^Mosheim, Institut. Hist. Eccles. P. 632. See in Chardin's Travels i64 THE DECLINE AND FALL [ch. Lvii The false or genuine magnanimity of Mahmud the Gazne- vide was not imitated by Alp Arslan ; and he attacked, without scruple, the Greek empress Eudocia and her children. His alarming progress compelled her to give herself and her sceptre to the hand of a soldier; and Romanus Diogenes was invested with the Imperial ])urple. His patr...iotism, and per- haps his i)ridc, urged him from Constantinople within two months after his accession ; and the next campaign he most scandalously took the field during the holy festival of Easter. In the palace, Diogenes was no more than the husband of Eudocia ; in the camp, he was the emperor of the Romans, and he sustained that character with feeble resources and invincible courage. By his spirit and success, the soldiers were taught to act, the subjects to hope, and the enemies to fear. The Turks had penetrated into the heart of Phrygia ; but the sultan himself had resigned to his emirs the prosecu- tion of the war; and their numerous detachments were scat- tered over Asia in the security of conc^uest.
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407), and was devoutly borrowed from St. George of Cappadocia.
'^Mosheim, Institut. Hist. Eccles. P. 632. See in Chardin's Travels i64 THE DECLINE AND FALL [ch. Lvii The false or genuine magnanimity of Mahmud the Gazne- vide was not imitated by Alp Arslan ; and he attacked, without scruple, the Greek empress Eudocia and her children. His alarming progress compelled her to give herself and her sceptre to the hand of a soldier; and Romanus Diogenes was invested with the Imperial ])urple. His patr...iotism, and per- haps his i)ridc, urged him from Constantinople within two months after his accession ; and the next campaign he most scandalously took the field during the holy festival of Easter. In the palace, Diogenes was no more than the husband of Eudocia ; in the camp, he was the emperor of the Romans, and he sustained that character with feeble resources and invincible courage. By his spirit and success, the soldiers were taught to act, the subjects to hope, and the enemies to fear. The Turks had penetrated into the heart of Phrygia ; but the sultan himself had resigned to his emirs the prosecu- tion of the war; and their numerous detachments were scat- tered over Asia in the security of conc^uest.
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