Heraclian

Justinian II, the son of Constantine and the last of the Heraclian dynasty.

648 2001

Heraclian came with a body of troops to seize him.

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

The troops and officers whom Attalus had sent into that province were defeated and slain; and the active zeal of Heraclian maintained his own allegiance and that of his people.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

But even the family of Proba herself was not exempt from the rapacious oppression of Count Heraclian, who basely sold, in matrimonial prostitution, the noblest maidens of Rome to the lust or avarice of the Syrian merchants.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

Lifting his gaze up the ascent from the low ground, it rested presently on a Tower built boldly upon the Heraclian wall.

The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

[147] When Heraclian landed in the harbor of Carthage, he found that the whole province, disdaining such an unworthy ruler, had returned to their allegiance.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765

Stilicho supported, with calm resignation, the injurious names of traitor and parricide; repressed the unseasonable zeal of his followers, who were ready to attempt an ineffectual rescue; and, with a firmness not unworthy of the last of the Roman generals, submitted his neck to the sword of Heraclian.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765

Between the fall of the Heraclian and the rise of the Isaurian dynasty,

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

But even the family of Proba herself was not exempt from the rapacious oppression of Count Heraclian, who basely sold, in matrimonial prostitution, the noblest maidens of Rome to the lust or avarice of the Syrian merchants.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765

Heraclian, against his personal safety, awakened, for a moment, the torpid instinct of his nature.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765