They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.

- Anna Komnene

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

- Anna Komnene

The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.

- Anna Komnene

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the t…

- Anna Komnene