As the sultry days of August reached their culmination the capital eased into a drunken stupor.
As the sultry days of August reached their culmination the capital eased into a drunken stupor. The feasts and festivals of the preceding months began to exhaust the population of their customary revelry. Parades of strange beasts with their beady eyes, eunuchs with pinched faces, priests swaying to baritone chants, the gold and silk of the imperial cit…
Varangian Chronicler
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