His soul seems to have been harrowed by the consciousness of crime, and he sought, by the cruel rites of a debasing superstition, to appease the wrath of the Gods.
Still remorse did not prevent him from plunging into the most revolting excesses of debauchery.

The chronicles of those times state that he had three hundred concubines in one of his palaces, three hundred in another at Kief, and two hundred at one of his country seats.

It is by no means certain that these are exaggerations, for every beautiful maiden in the empire was sought out, to be transferred to his harems.

Paganism had no word of remonstrance to utter against such excesses.

But Vlademer, devoted as he was to sensual indulgence, was equally fond of war.