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1 XLVI | soldiers would presently abandon an emperor parsimonious
2 XXX | father-in-law, grew impatient at his abased condition, and, emboldened
3 XX | his three colleagues to abdicate? Galerius had Licinius ever
4 XXVI | his father, who since his abdication resided in Campania, he
5 XLII | manner, and compelled to abhor life, became incapable of
6 V | revenge his captivity and most abject and servile state; neither
7 VIII | males, which is hateful and abominable, but also in the violation
8 VII | was from mere necessity abrogated. To this there were added
9 XLVIII | be permitted, freely and absolutely, to remain in it, and not
10 XVI | found unconquerable; and he abstained from challenging you any
11 XXXIII | hatched swarms much more abundant to prey upon and consume
12 XXXIII | the blood streamed more abundantly than before. He grew emaciated,
13 XXV | the utmost unwillingness, accepted the portrait, and sent the
14 XXVI | every sort of luxurious accommodation, so that they were not only
15 L | arrived at man's estate, who accompanied Daia in his flight from
16 VI | not, however, permitted to accomplish what he had devised; for
17 II | Testament; and this having been accomplished, a cloud and whirlwind enveloped
18 XII | day was sought out for the accomplishment of this undertaking; and
19 XXV | he might seem of his own accord to have received that prince
20 XXX | to prevent suspicion, he accosted them, and said that he had
21 XLVI | anniversary of his reign. Accounts came that Daia was in motion;
22 XVIII | unsubstantial name would accrue to him from this proposal,
23 L | denied to Daia, all rights accruing to her as the widow of Galerius.
24 XL | Neither indeed was there any accuser, until a certain Jew, one
25 XX | person, his old and intimate acquaintance, and his earliest companion
26 XXVII | cities with which be was acquainted. But some of his legions,
27 XXVI | to death, and, with the acquiescence of the tumultuary populace,
28 XLVIII | a price, or gratuitously acquired them, to make application
29 XXXVI | Bithynia, he, with the view of acquiring immediate popularity, abolished
30 | across
31 IX | delay the recital of his actions; for indeed afterwards,
32 XVI | tongues,~A voice of brass, and adamantine lungs,~Not half the dreadful
33 VIII | with ill-gotten wealth. Add to all this the incontinency
34 III | but she shone forth with additional splendour, and became more
35 XV | should be inadvertently administered to a Christian, altars were
36 XXV | as he intended formerly, admit Licinius, without exceeding
37 XXV | resolution so frantic. They admonished him of the danger, and they
38 XLVI | Licinius while he was asleep, admonishing him to arise immediately,
39 V | to our ambassadors, as an admonition to the Romans, that, beholding
40 L | having no children, had adopted him. On the news of the
41 XXXIX | Galerius, her husband, and, by adoption, the father of Daia, were
42 XXXIV | neither pay reverence and due adoration to the gods, nor yet worship
43 XXV | portrait of Constantine, adorned with laurels, was brought
44 XLV | expeditious marches had reached Adrianople, but with forces not numerous.
45 IX | dishonoured with the name of adulteress. But, not to confound the
46 XXXIV | regulations for the permanent advantage of the commonweal, we have
47 XXIX | taken up arms. Maximian advised the unsuspecting Constantine
48 XVI | Bithynia, the author and adviser of the persecution, and
49 XI | blamed, he called in many advisers, that his own fault might
50 XXXIII | any success. Apollo and AEsculapius were besought importunately
51 I | narrative, that all who are afar off, and all who shall arise
52 XVIII | virtuous demeanour and singular affability, had endeared him to the
53 XXXIII | and healed up the place affected. But the sore, after having
54 XXXVI | followed in the East, and, affecting the show of clemency, he
55 XXXVIII| virtue and fidelity they affectionately loved, could not endure
56 XLIII | emperors, by contracting this affinity, meant to league against
57 II | not to believe those who, affirming that the two prophets Enoch
58 II | impunity; for God looked on the affliction of His people; and therefore
59 XLVIII | such within the regulation aforesaid, and we will that you cause
60 VII | veriest trifles; men were afraid to expose aught to sale,
61 VIII | opulent provinces, such as Africa and Spain, were near at
62 XXIX | judicious, because given by an aged and experienced commander;
63 V | might be a lesson to future ages that the adversaries of
64 XXXIII | means of cure served but to aggravate the disease.~"The masters
65 XXX | taken in the fact, all aghast,~"Stood like a stone, silent
66 XLII | to and fro, with his soul agitated by grief, he could neither
67 XXVII | calamities of war. Long ago, indeed, and at the very
68 XXIII | themselves; and no sooner did agony oblige them to acknowledge
69 VII | heaping together extraordinary aids and free gifts, that his
70 XXXIV | Romans. "It has been our aim in an especial manner, that
71 IX | assembled a great army, and aimed at becoming master of the
72 XVIII | A kinsman of mine."--"Alas!" said Diocletian, heaving
73 XIV | constantly urging him, and never allowing the passions of the inconsiderate
74 I | hereafter, may learn how the Almighty manifested His power and
75 | along
76 XXXIII | acknowledge God, and he cried aloud, in the intervals of raging
77 VII | were to be pulled down, or altered, to undergo perhaps a future
78 XLVII | javelins. Daia went about, and, alternately by entreaties and promises,
79 XXXVIII| been once signed, he had no alternative bat to die, or to receive
80 IX | imperial purple, he became altogether outrageous, and of unbounded
81 VIII | such fair opportunities of amassing. Whenever he stood in need
82 XIX | Severus and Maximin. The amazement was universal. Constantine
83 IX | field. Galerius laid an ambush for them, and easily overthrew
84 XVIII | power?"--"But Constantine is amiable, and will so rule as hereafter,
85 XXXVI | armies. Peace, however, and amity were established under certain
86 | among
87 XXXIII | undertake their operations anew, and at length they cicatrized
88 XLVI | on the following night an angel of the Lord seemed to stand
89 XIV | contrivance, but, inflamed with anger, immediately commanded that
90 XXX | celebrated his twentieth anniversary--thus that most haughty man
91 XLVI | confidence that victory bad been announced to them from heaven. Licinius
92 II | prove the forerunner of Antichrist! But we ought not to believe
93 XXXVII | yet due, were levied by anticipation. Hence famine, from neglect
94 L | to the court of Licinius, anxious to observe what might befall
95 IX | the eastern provinces, and anxiously watched the event. It is
96 | anywhere
97 XXI | What shall I say of his apartment for sport, and of his favourite
98 II | while Nero reigned, the Apostle Peter came to Rome, and,
99 XLVIII | Christians. And because it appears that, besides the places
100 XLVIII | gratuitously acquired them, to make application to the judge of the district,
101 XX | Necessity had required the appointment of Constantius to the first
102 L | Candidianus and Severianus, apprehending evil from Licinius, had
103 XXVI | against Rome. Under such apprehensions, Maxentius sought to protect
104 XVIII | deserves the office, for he has approved himself a faithful paymaster
105 II | tenth of the kalends of April, as I find it written, Jesus
106 IX | Roman empire. Diocletian, apt to be low-spirited and timorous
107 XL | with light infantry and archers. And thus, under a guard
108 XXVII | and to besiege it was an arduous undertaking; for Galerius
109 XVIII | in confirmation of his argument, produced the example of
110 I | the late oppressed Church arises again, and the temple of
111 IX | sent Galerius by the way of Armenia, while he himself halted
112 XXVI | XXVI.~Things seemed to be arranged in some measure to the satisfaction
113 XXXII | and to acquiesce in his arrangement, to give place to age, and
114 XII | Pretorian Guards came in battle array, with axes and other iron
115 XLIX | saw God, with His servants arrayed in white robes, sitting
116 XXIV | forward orders to Severus for arresting him on the road. Constantine
117 XVII | be kept secret until the arrival of Galerius Caesar, lest
118 IX | outrageous, and of unbounded arrogance. While by such a conduct,
119 XXXVI | Licinius lingered in Europe, to arrogate to himself all the country
120 XLIV | title which Daia had always arrogated to himself. Daia, when he
121 XXXIII | The masters of the healing art withdrew."~Then famous physicians
122 XVI | from the heavenly camp; no artifice ensnare, or pain of body
123 VII | furnishing wages to labourers and artificers, and supplying carriages
124 XXII | as magical and forbidden arts; and all who possessed them
125 XXI | over the Persians, was not ashamed incessantly to extol such
126 XLVI | before Licinius while he was asleep, admonishing him to arise
127 VIII | evidences, as guilty of aspiring to the empire; so that the
128 XVIII | into compliance; and he now assailed Diocletian. At first, in
129 VI | Caenophrurium in Thrace, assassinated by his familiar friends,
130 XI | prevailed upon to yield his assent. He determined above all
131 XXII | upon the provinces, without assessors to guide or control them.~
132 XVIII | two others of inferior, to assist them. Easily might concord
133 XI | together, at which no one else assisted; and it was the universal
134 X | ordered not only all who were assisting at the holy ceremonies,
135 XVIII | to it, who are about to assume the administration of the
136 L | Daia, he had intentions of assuming the imperial purple. Long
137 XLVI | to the Supreme God, and assuring him that by so doing he
138 XXIX | events, and, by marches astonishingly rapid, he flew back with
139 XXI | when their limbs were torn asunder, he laughed with excessive
140 XXXIII | had demolished, and make atonement for his misdeeds; and when
141 XLVIII | should be denied leave of attaching himself to the rites of
142 XVII | meanwhile the soldiery should attempt some change in the government;
143 II | remote place that they might attend our Lord when He shall come
144 XXXIII | prescribe, and the distemper augmented. Already approaching to
145 XVIII | conference, and also that he was augmenting his army; and now, on hearing
146 VI | VI.~Aurelian might have recollected the
147 XII | XII.~A fit and auspicious day was sought out for the
148 XXXVI | publicly or in private; and he authorized them to compel the Christians
149 VIII | that Diocletian was more avaricious and less resolute, and that
150 XLVII | drew nigh; the trumpets ave the signal; the military
151 XXXI | From Maximian, God, the avenger of religion and of His people,
152 XXIV | when he could no longer avoid complying with the request
153 XLV | a like destruction that awaited the soldiers. Daia did not
154 XLVI | pray, and in what words. Awaking from sleep, he sent for
155 XXVII | small body of troops. He was aware of his danger, and allowed
156 XII | came in battle array, with axes and other iron instruments,
157 IX | followers and with their baggage. Having put Narseus to flight,
158 XXII | sorts of punishment, as to banish, to imprison, or to send
159 XXXIX | for her residence while in banishment; and hence he insultingly
160 XXXVIII| die, or to receive some barbarian as his son-in-law. For hardly
161 IX | beast there dwelt a native barbarity and a savageness foreign
162 XLVI | themselves; and advanced. A barren and open plain, called Campus
163 XXXVIII| signed, he had no alternative bat to die, or to receive some
164 XXV | both the portrait and its bearer to the flames, but his confidants
165 XXI | favourite diversions? He kept bears, most resembling himself
166 XL | with the empress. Excellent beauty and virtue proved the cause
167 | becoming
168 XXXVIII| should be unworthy of the bed of the emperor. Whenever
169 XXXVIII| violated with impunity the beds of their dependants. For
170 L | anxious to observe what might befall Candidianus. The youth,
171 XLVIII | to the Christians. For it befits the well-ordered state and
172 XVI | spectacle to God, when He beheld you a conqueror, yoking
173 | behind
174 I | the reward of their faith. Behold, all the adversaries are
175 XLVIII | all which things for the behoof of the Christians, you are
176 XXIX | overpowered. The young prince believed the advice to be judicious,
177 XXXVI | joined hands. Then Daia, believing all things to be in security,
178 IX | to take everything that belongs to them into the field.
179 XXXII | requests and will of his benefactor. Galerius at length, overcome
180 XLVIII | seated in heaven, might be benign and propitious to us, and
181 XXI | to the highest power, he bent his mind to afflict that
182 II | and therefore the tyrant, bereaved of authority, and precipitated
183 XXVII | the place by storm, and to besiege it was an arduous undertaking;
184 XXIX | having been unbarred, the besiegers were admitted into the city.
185 XXXIV | from our wonted clemency in bestowing pardon on all, have judged
186 XXXIV | ordaining the Christians to betake themselves to the observance
187 XXX | flattery, solicited her to betray her husband. He promised
188 XVIII | extensive than his, and better civilized. Diocletian already
189 IV | devoured by wild beasts and birds,--a fit end for the enemy
190 I | the, furious whirlwind and black tempest, the heavens are
191 XXXIII | time the passages from his bladder and bowels, having been
192 XXXIII | inferior, distended like bladders, re rained no appearance
193 XI | he was sensible would be blamed, he called in many advisers,
194 XXXIII | pallid, and feeble, and the bleeding then stanched. The ulcer
195 XI | carried through without bloodshed; whereas Galerius would
196 LII | successors? The Lord has blotted them out and erased them
197 XL | while the torturers by blows prevented the women from
198 XLII | of vexation of spirit and bodily maladies, he resolved to
199 XXXVII | Meanwhile Daia recompensed his bodyguards, who were very numerous,
200 VIII | with less avarice, had a bolder spirit, prone not to good,
201 XXXVIII| men who had fled from the bondage of barbarians should thus
202 IX | wonder, for his mother was born beyond the Danube, and it
203 XLVIII | indemnification from our bounty. In furthering all which
204 L | so that neither root nor branch of for Licinius, as soon
205 III | solemn and severe decrees it branded him, even after death, with
206 XVI | hundred tongues,~A voice of brass, and adamantine lungs,~Not
207 XL | contrivance; and with his last breath he protested to all the
208 XLIX | one burnt alive, did he breathe out his guilty soul in the
209 XXXI | guards were set round, no breathing time was granted, or, at
210 I | supplications of the rest of our brethren, who by a glorious confession
211 XIV | other who should be first in bringing to light the conspiracy.
212 XXXII | injunctions of Galerius. That brute animal was stung to the
213 XLVI | became full of courage, buckled on their helmets again,
214 VII | certain endless passion for building, and on that account, endless
215 XXXIII | pain, ~So roars the wounded bull."~They applied warm flesh
216 XLV | he lost all his beasts of burden, of whatever kind, in consequence
217 II | disappeared, and even the burial-place of that noxious wild beast
218 XLV | understood that they were busied in solemnizing the nuptials,
219 XLV | approached the gates of Byzantium. There was a garrison in
220 VI | all bloody on the earth at Caenophrurium in Thrace, assassinated
221 XXVIII | make an harangue on the calamitous situation of public affairs.
222 XXIX | and as soon as, by his calculation, Constantine had entered
223 XXXVIII| debauching women. What else can I call it but a blind and headstrong
224 I | the heavens are now become calm, and the wished-for light
225 XVI | snatch, from the heavenly camp; no artifice ensnare, or
226 XXVI | his abdication resided in Campania, he sent the purple, and
227 XLVI | barren and open plain, called Campus Serenus, lay between the
228 | cannot
229 XXIII | animals of every kind, and a capi-tation-roll made up. In cities, the
230 XXIII | estimated; and, that the capitation-tax might be enlarged, years
231 III | edifices, and rebuilt the Capitol, and left other distinguished
232 XLV | having taken Perinthus by capitulation, and remained there for
233 XLVII | fugitive forces, he halted in Cappadocia, and then he resumed the
234 XXXIV | established, they, through caprice, made laws to themselves,
235 XVI | those very men who had led captive the nations! After this
236 XXIII | and the wretched state of captives. Each spot of ground was
237 V | found no one to revenge his captivity and most abject and servile
238 V | he chose to get into his carriage or to mount on horseback,
239 VII | artificers, and supplying carriages and whatever else was requisite
240 XXVII | him. There was no hope of carrying the place by storm, and
241 XXI | ready prepared in capital cases; and for lesser crimes,
242 L | killed. Hearing of this catastrophe, Valeria immediately fled.
243 II | whirlwind enveloped Him, and caught Him up from the sight of
244 VII | presidents. Very few civil causes came before them: but there
245 XXXIII | of overcoming the malady, ceased not to apply fomentations
246 XLVI | adversaries. And now, the ceremony having been thrice performed,
247 XVIII | acquiesce in whatever we do?"--"Certainly they will," replied Diocletian, "
248 XXXVI | far as the narrow seas of Chalcedon. On his entry into Bithynia,
249 XVI | unconquerable; and he abstained from challenging you any more, lest you should
250 XXXVII | preceptor Galerius. For if aught chanced to have been left untouched
251 X | At this the demons were chased away, and the holy rites
252 XXII | household and his stewards were chastised with lances, instead of
253 XXI | a manner unknown in the chastisement of slaves. What shall I
254 XXXVIII| reign of this adulterer, chastity had been treason. Some men
255 XLV | established by Licinius to check any invasion that Daia might
256 XXIX | son-in-law, but also the child of his son-in-law; and that
257 XXVIII | and envied his son with a childish spirit of rivalry; and therefore
258 IX | But, not to confound the chronological order of events, I delay
259 XXXIII | anew, and at length they cicatrized the wound. In consequence
260 XLIV | thus at the top, being the cipher of CHRIST. Having this sign,
261 XLIV | while he exhibited the Circensian games on the anniversary
262 XVII | close of summer, he made a circuit along the banks of the Danube,
263 XI | friends. Now this was a circumstance in the bad disposition of
264 XIV | light the conspiracy. No circumstances, however, of the fact were
265 XXVI | and make out lists of the citizens. Much about the same time
266 XVIII | extensive than his, and better civilized. Diocletian already knew,
267 XXVI | as it were an hereditary claim to the services of his father'
268 XLVIII | money demanded or price claimed, and that this be performed
269 XXVIII | soldiers. Their rage and clamour confounded the unnatural
270 XVI | neither scourges, nor iron claws, nor fire, nor sword, nor
271 XXVI | the tumultuary populace, clothed Maxentius in the imperial
272 XX | if pressed by his three colleagues to abdicate? Galerius had
273 XXIX | true purpose was, under colour of reconciliation, to find
274 XXIV | recreation, he made him combat with wild beasts: but this
275 XLVII | entered the field, not as combatants, but as men devoted to death.
276 XVIII | Caesar. The distinguished comeliness of his figure, his strict
277 XXXVIII| everywhere, and no sooner was any comely face discovered, than husbands
278 XXIX | an aged and experienced commander; and he followed it, because
279 III | perpetual infamy. Thus, the commands of the tyrant having been
280 XVII | there to celebrate the commencement of the twentieth year of
281 XIV | palace, obtained special commissions to administer the torture;
282 VII | inflicted; taxes on numberless commodities, and those not only often
283 IX | low-spirited and timorous in every commotion, and fearing a fate like
284 XXX | dream which he wished to communicate to his son-in-law. He went
285 XX | acquaintance, and his earliest companion in arms, whose counsels
286 XXII | government of Galerius, when compared with what follows. For eloquence
287 XXI | he laughed with excessive complacency: nor did he ever sup without
288 XI | Christians, and by woman-like complaints instigated her son, no less
289 VII | when those buildings were completed, to the destruction of whole
290 XXXIII | intestines. Already, through a complication of distempers, the different
291 XXIV | he could no longer avoid complying with the request of Constantius,
292 XLVIII | is, to their churches, we comprehend all such within the regulation
293 XXVII | disclose where they had concealed their goods, and their wives
294 XI | prayer. On this account she conceived ill-will against the Christians,
295 XLIV | one who had abandoned all concern for the safety of the commonweal;
296 XIV | that the Christians, in concert with the eunuchs, had plotted
297 XIX | Matters having been thus concerted, Diocletian and Galerius
298 XVIII | assist them. Easily might concord be preserved between two
299 L | the son of Galerius by a concubine, and Valeria, having no
300 XI | desire of gratifying him, concurred in the opinion given against
301 XV | Constantius, requiring their concurrence in the execution of the
302 XXI | that, after torture and condemnation, they should be burnt at
303 VII | before them: but there were condemnations daily, and forfeitures frequently
304 II | the worship of idols, and, condemning their old ways, went over
305 XXXVI | established under certain conditions. Licinius and Daia met on
306 IX | arrogance. While by such a conduct, and with such associates,
307 XXIX | his son, that they might confer together, as he pretended,
308 XI | universal opinion that their conferences respected the most momentous
309 XXV | bearer to the flames, but his confidants dissuaded him from a resolution
310 XVIII | fifteen years past he had been confined, as an exile, to Illyricum
311 LII | and by day, beseech Him to confirm for ever that peace which,
312 XVIII | his labours. Galerius, in confirmation of his argument, produced
313 XXXVIII| wives to his slaves. His conflicts also imitated the example
314 XXXIV | to reduce all things to a conformity with the ancient laws and
315 IX | adulteress. But, not to confound the chronological order
316 XII | pillage: all was rapine, confusion, tumult. That church, situated
317 XVIII | Galerius Caesar arrived, not to congratulate his father-in-law on the
318 XLIII | possess the whole empire. This conjecture, however, had no foundation;
319 XL | senator, was; intimately connected with the empress. Excellent
320 XXIII | Whatever, by the laws of war, conquerors had done to the conquered,
321 XXXVII | served up, unless foretasted, consecrated, and sprinkled with wine,
322 XXVI | yet he reflected that this consideration might occur to Galerius
323 XLVIII | measure, and one highly consonant to right reason, that no
324 XL | attended on his well-deserving consort, but amongst the spectators
325 XIV | in bringing to light the conspiracy. No circumstances, however,
326 XLV | came to receive his wife Constantia. When Daia understood that
327 I | from the time of its first constitution, and what were the punishments
328 XVII | his first appearance as consul should be at Ravenna. Having,
329 XLVIII | he and Constantine were consuls for the third time, he commanded
330 XXXIII | abundant to prey upon and consume his intestines. Already,
331 XLVI | for he held Licinius in contempt, and imagined that the soldiers
332 XXXI | magistrates, frequently contended for the right of levying
333 XLIII | that the two emperors, by contracting this affinity, meant to
334 XXII | without assessors to guide or control them.~
335 XLVIII | that without hesitation or controversy: Provided always, that the
336 XLII | station, treated in the most contumelious manner, and compelled to
337 XVIII | man, has treated me with contumely, how will he act when once
338 III | barbarous that did not, by being converted to the worship of God, become
339 II | suppose that, having been conveyed to a distant region, he
340 XXXVII | to be slaughtered, not by cooks, but by priests at the altars.;
341 XIV | inconsiderate old man to cool. Then, after an interval
342 XLVI | Holy Supreme God."~Many copies were made of these words,
343 XLIII | wrote to him in terms of cordiality. The ambassadors were received
344 III | not any the most remote corner of the earth to which the
345 IX | swollen to a horrible bulk of corpulency; by his speech, gestures,
346 IX | Dacia. The form of Galerius corresponded with his manners. Of stature
347 VIII | inclinations and purposes, a corresponding will and unanimity in judgment.
348 LII | of the persecutors should corrupt the truth, either by suppressing
349 XXXIII | dissolved into one mass of corruption.~"Stung to the soul, he
350 XXXVII | were very numerous, with costly raiment and gold medals,
351 XLII | various postures, now on his couch, and now on the ground.
352 XI | Diocletian and Galerius held councils together, at which no one
353 XI | were admitted to give their counsel; and the question was put
354 XVII | still lived. At this the countenance of his domestics and courtiers
355 XLIII | ambassadors were received courteously, friendship established,
356 XV | altars were placed in the courts of justice, hard by the
357 XXX | the very execution of his crime. They placed a base eunuch
358 XXII | to imprison, or to send criminals to work in the mines; but
359 XXXIII | approaching to its deadly crisis, it had occupied the lower
360 IX | Carpi that obliged her to cross over and take refuge in
361 XXV | would acknowledge him, and crowd eagerly to his standard.
362 XV | sacrifice. The prisons were crowded; tortures, hitherto unheard
363 XXIII | market-places filled with crowds of families, all attended
364 I | obtained an everlasting crown, the reward of their faith.
365 XXI | and in civil questions. Crucifixion was the punishment ready
366 XXII | the mines; but to burn, to crucify, to expose to wild beasts,
367 XXXVII | famine, from neglect of cultivation, and the prices of all things
368 XXXIII | employed as the means of cure served but to aggravate
369 XXIX | incessantly uttered abuse and curses against Constantine. Then,
370 XXVII | not the Roman, but the Dacian empire.~
371 XXIII | Trajan, as a penalty on the Dacians for their frequent rebellions.
372 XVIII | Severus."--"How! that dancer, that habitual drunkard,
373 XXXIX | such as she alone could dare to do: first, that she would
374 XLIX | excruciating torments, he dashed his forehead against the
375 XXVII | possibly he might be joined by Data, and so bring into the field
376 XII | whole earth. When that day dawned, in the eighth consulship
377 XXXIII | Already approaching to its deadly crisis, it had occupied
378 VII | made all things exceedingly dear, attempted by an ordinance
379 XIII | the other hand, they were debarred from being plaintiffs in
380 XXXVIII| his lewdness. After having debauched freeborn maidens, he gave
381 XXIX | might the more successfully deceive, he laid aside the imperial
382 IV | afterwards interrupted. Decius appeared in the world, an
383 XX | easy temper, and of health declining and precarious. He looked
384 XXIII | Meanwhile the number of animals decreased, and men died; nevertheless
385 XLIV | afterwards, when he heard of the decree of the senate, he grew outrageous,
386 XLIV | the valour of Constantine, decreed to him the title of Maximus (
387 III | by most solemn and severe decrees it branded him, even after
388 XVII | brought out, in order to dedicate that circus which, at the
389 XXIII | against their husbands, In default of all other evidence, men
390 XL | from speaking in their own defence. The innocent were condemned
391 XXVII | diligent provision for a defensive war, Maximian went into
392 XVI | conquered, when you set at defiance their flagitious edicts,
393 IX | as long as he forbore to defile his hands with the blood
394 XXXVII | returned from it impure and defiled. In all things else he resembled
395 XXXVIII| monster ruled, it was singular deformity alone which could shield
396 XIII | any distinction of rank or degree, they should be subjected
397 LII | looked on the earth, He deigned to collect again and to
398 IX | chronological order of events, I delay the recital of his actions;
399 I | deserved tortures. For God delayed to punish them, that, by
400 XLV | called Perinthus), and by delays of the like nature before
401 VIII | enormities he placed his supreme delight, and to indulge to the utmost
402 VIII | And thus the treasury, delighting in blood, overflowed with
403 V | and not what the Romans delineate on board or plaster." Valerian
404 XXXIV | how they ought herein to demean themselves.~"Wherefore it
405 XXXIII | the Church which he had demolished, and make atonement for
406 XXIV | Constantine a warrant to depart, and commanded him to set
407 XIV | winter bad prepared for his departure, suddenly hurried out of
408 XXXVIII| impunity the beds of their dependants. For who was there to punish
409 XIII | an edict was published, depriving the Christians of all honours
410 XLV | moved out of Syria in the depth of a severe winter, and
411 VII | of different degrees, and deputies of presidents. Very few
412 XVI | of Hierocles, who from a deputy became president of Bithynia,
413 XXV | And now his plans were deranged, and he could not, as he
414 V | remained long the scoff and derision of the barbarians: and this
415 XLVIII | Divinity; and we mean not to derogate aught from the honour due
416 XIX | original name of Diocles. He descended from the tribunal, and passed
417 XXIV | in the manner that I have described above, he did not set himself
418 XLI | empress, an exile in some desert region of Syria, secretly
419 XLVII | seemed to be no shame in desertion Before the expiration of
420 XVI | Lord for your virtue and deserts. But let us now return to
421 I | inflicted by Heaven, and amidst deserved tortures. For God delayed
422 XXIX | and the same time. Now the designs of Maximian having been
423 XLIII | sent ambassadors to Rome, desiring a friendly alliance with
424 XLIX | both by sea and land, he despaired of finding any place for
425 XXIV | morning with the imperial despatches. Galerius meant either to
426 I | rooting out and utterly destroying the enemies of His name.
427 XXIV | to find some pretext for detaining Constantine, or to forward
428 XIV | however, of the fact were detected anywhere; for no one applied
429 XXX | husband. A plan was laid for detecting Maximian in the very execution
430 XXIII | compassion on them, and determining that they should remain
431 XXVII | But some of his legions, detesting the wicked enterprise of
432 XXIV | with wild beasts: but this device was frustrated; for the
433 V | dared to do, or even to devise, aught against the majesty
434 VII | that author of ill, and deviser of misery, was ruining all
435 XLVIII | whose worship we freely devote ourselves, might continue
436 XLVII | as combatants, but as men devoted to death. After great numbers
437 XXVI | resolved by permanent taxes to devour the empire, soared to such
438 XLVI | of his secretaries, and dictated these words exactly as he
439 XI | ceremonies. Others thought differently, but, having understood
440 XX | should recover, it seemed not difficult to force him to put off
441 XXXIII | was stopped, although with difficulty. The physicians had to undertake
442 XXXIII | the neighbouring parts. It diffused itself the wider the more
443 XIII | Christians of all honours and dignities; ordaining also that, without
444 XLVIII | you are to use your utmost diligence, to the end that our orders
445 VII | money in his treasury to be diminished: he was constantly heaping
446 IX | and with such associates, Diocles--for that was the name of
447 XVIII | and growing infirmities disabled Diocletian for the charge
448 II | height of empire, suddenly disappeared, and even the burial-place
449 XXIX | soldiery, and feigned that such disasters had befallen Constantine
450 XVIII | and now, should anything disastrous ensue, the blame will not
451 XXIV | on the road. Constantine discerned his purpose; and therefore,
452 XVI | resolution. This it is to be a disciple of God, and this it is to
453 XXXIV | ancient laws and public discipline of the Romans. "It has been
454 XL | to a gibbet, and then he disclosed the whole secret contrivance;
455 L | this, not even after his discomfiture and flight, and when he
456 XVIII | and now, on hearing his discourse, the spiritless old man
457 XXXVII | corrupted them, that they disdained their wonted pittance in
458 XXIII | afforded any exemption. The diseased and the infirm were carried
459 XLII | Diocletian lived to see a disgrace which no former emperor
460 L | death of Daia, she came in disguise to the court of Licinius,
461 V | shameful life under so great dishonour, he was flayed, and his
462 IX | mother Romula should be dishonoured with the name of adulteress.
463 XVI | soldier whom no enemy can dislodge, or wolf snatch, from the
464 XXVII | Rome, and fled in great disorder. Easily might he have been
465 XVII | health again, for he became disordered in his judgment, being at
466 I | the cloud of past times is dispelled, and peace and serenity
467 XXXI | payment first. There was no dispensation given to those who had nothing;
468 XXVII | allowed his soldiers to disperse themselves, and to plunder
469 XI | they, either from dread of displeasing or from a desire of gratifying
470 XVIII | appointed who are at my disposal, who will dread me, and
471 XVIII | man of bad and mischievous dispositions, and so proud and stubborn
472 XII | as if on a watch-tower, disputing long whether it ought to
473 XVIII | inclinations and judgment are to be disregarded. Men ought to be appointed
474 XXXVII | execution, so for a time he dissembled his purpose; nevertheless
475 XXXVI | to the great joy of all. Dissension arose between the two emperors,
476 XV | he should have seemed to dissent from the injunctions of
477 XXV | flames, but his confidants dissuaded him from a resolution so
478 XXXIII | through a complication of distempers, the different parts of
479 XXXIII | bones while the inferior, distended like bladders, re rained
480 XLIX | so that he was driven to distraction with the intolerable pain;
481 XLVIII | application to the judge of the district, if they look on themselves
482 XI | pernicious it would be to raise disturbances throughout the world and
483 XVI | times exposed to racks and diversified torments, nine times by
484 XXI | sport, and of his favourite diversions? He kept bears, most resembling
485 VII | Besides, the provinces were divided into minute portions, and
486 X | afforded no tokens for divination. At length Tages, the chief
487 XV | otherwise approached than divinities. Mandates also had gone
488 XXXIX | impiously, in proposing to divorce a faithful wife to make
489 II | preaching of His word and doctrine, and regulated all things
490 XLVI | assuring him that by so doing he should obtain victory.
491 III | another tyrant no less wicked (Domitian), who, although his government
492 XLII | ever seen, and, trader the double load of vexation of spirit
493 XIX | Constantine; for there was no doubt that the choice would fall
494 XLIX | himself with food, and large draughts of wine, as those are wont
495 XLIV | fifth year of his reign was drawing to an end. Constantine was
496 XVI | adamantine lungs,~Not half the dreadful scene could I disclose,"~
497 XXVII | to waver, when Galerius, dreading a fate like that of Severus,
498 XXXVI | honourable distinction of dress. And as to the Christians,
499 XXXIII | and accordingly, when the dressings were removed, there issued
500 XLIX | believe that they eat and drink for the last time; and so