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501 XXIV | which his fortunes began to droop and to waste away. While
502 XLVII | in any quarter, and they drove him back. Then were the
503 L | commanded chaste women to be drowned. So, by the unerring and
504 XXXVIII| woman resisted, death by drowning was inflicted on her; as
505 XVIII | that dancer, that habitual drunkard, who turns night into day,
506 XXXIII | form: the superior part was dry, meagre, and haggard, and
507 XXXVI | lopped off, and their eyes dug out of the sockets.~
508 XXIV | that young man, because he durst not use open violence, lest
509 XVIII | attention to all military duties, his virtuous demeanour
510 IX | In this wild beast there dwelt a native barbarity and a
511 V | stripped from the flesh, was dyed with vermilion, and placed
512 XXXV | universal putrefaction. Dying, he recommended his wife
513 XI | Christians were wont with eagerness to meet death; and that
514 XLVI | purposed to give battle earlier, to fight on the day before
515 XX | intimate acquaintance, and his earliest companion in arms, whose
516 XVII | burial, of Diocletian: but early on the morrow it was suddenly
517 XXXI | mouths of those who had earned it by toil, was grievous:
518 XIX | spectators, with the utmost earnestness, waited for the nomination.
519 XXXVI | for the faith had their ears and nostrils slit, their
520 XVIII | while others, at their ease, governed dominions more
521 XXII | permitted to die in the easiest manner. But these were slight
522 XII | levelled that very lofty edifice with the ground.~
523 XLVI | would extinguish and utterly efface the name of the Christians.
524 XX | XX.~Galerius having effected the expulsion of the two
525 XXIII | And thus, while he took effectual measures that none, under
526 XLIII | and in token of it the effigies of Maxentius and Daia were
527 XXI | without being spectator of the effusion of human blood. Men of private
528 XXXVI | he had been in Syria and Egypt. First of all, he took away
529 XXXIII | when Galerius was in the eighteenth year of his reign, God struck
530 XLV | aught. After eleven days had elapsed, within which time Licinius
531 XVIII | Diocletian, "for we must elect their sons."~Now Maximian
532 XIX | hope of his approaching election, and occupied themselves
533 VII | or a house of uncommon elegance, a false accusation and
534 XVI | white horses, nor enormous elephants, but those very men who
535 II | the two prophets Enoch and Elias have been translated into
536 XXII | compared with what follows. For eloquence was extinguished, pleaders
537 | elsewhere
538 XXIII | pretext of poverty, should elude the tax, he put to death
539 XXXIII | abundantly than before. He grew emaciated, pallid, and feeble, and
540 IX | and easily overthrew men embarrassed with the multitude of their
541 XLV | about the roads, seemed an emblem of the calamities of the
542 XXX | his abased condition, and, emboldened by impunity, formed new
543 XLIII | view. Maxentius willingly embraced this, as if it had been
544 XLV | not time, on that sudden emergency, to collect all Of them
545 XIV | persecution, he employed private emissaries to set the palace on fire;
546 IX | Narseus, king of the Persians, emulating the example set him by his
547 XXXI | that the emperor might be enabled to perform his vow of celebrating
548 XLIV | neighbourhood of Rome, and encamped them opposite to the Milvian
549 XV | but a herd of them were encircled with the same fire; and
550 IX | Valerian, would not in person encounter Narseus; but he sent Galerius
551 XXVI | Severus, thus deserted? He was encountered by Maximian, who had resumed
552 XXXIII | flowed in such quantity as to endanger his life. The blood, however,
553 XVIII | singular affability, had endeared him to the troops, and made
554 VII | folly was he continually endeavouring to equal Nicomedia with
555 XXXVIII| affectionately loved, could not endure their anguish of mind, and
556 VII | soldiery might have been endured; but Diocletian, through
557 XII | First cause of ill, and long enduring woes;"~of woes which befell
558 XV | yielded ready obedience, and enforced the edicts throughout his
559 XXXIX | her title and dignity to engage a second time in wedlock.
560 XXXVII | the prices of all things enhanced beyond measure. Herds and
561 X | commanding officers, he enjoined that all soldiers should
562 XXIII | capitation-tax might be enlarged, years were added to the
563 XLIV | grew outrageous, avowed enmity towards Constantine, and
564 II | affirming that the two prophets Enoch and Elias have been translated
565 XXVI | Maxentius well knew the enormity of his own offences; and
566 XVI | heavenly camp; no artifice ensnare, or pain of body subdue,
567 XVIII | should anything disastrous ensue, the blame will not be mine."~
568 XXIV | approached him, and that season ensued in which his fortunes began
569 XXXV | have been celebrated on the ensuing kalends of March.~
570 XXVII | legions, detesting the wicked enterprise of a father against his
571 XLIII | now to relate. Daia had entertained jealousy and ill-will against
572 XXXVII | whoever was invited to an entertainment must needs have returned
573 XI | would not partake of those entertainments; and while she feasted with
574 XLV | first Daia attempted to entice the soldiers by the promise
575 XV | again,--but he preserved entire that true temple of God,
576 XLVIII | they look on themselves as entitled to any equivalent from our
577 X | the wonted marks on the entrails of the victims. They frequently
578 XLI | prevail. Again and again he entreated; yet she was not sent. At
579 II | accomplished, a cloud and whirlwind enveloped Him, and caught Him up from
580 XXVIII | uncontrolled sovereignty, and envied his son with a childish
581 XXXVIII| headstrong passion? Yet such epithets feebly express my indignation
582 VII | continually endeavouring to equal Nicomedia with the city
583 XVIII | be preserved between two equals, never amongst four; that
584 XL | against the innocent. The equitable and vigilant magistrate
585 XLVIII | themselves as entitled to any equivalent from our beneficence.~"All
586 XXXIII | physicians attempted to eradicate it, and healed up the place
587 XL | he charged the president Eratineus to have her put to death
588 XXIV | the public expense, and escaped. Next day the emperor, having
589 XXXIV | It has been our aim in an especial manner, that the Christians
590 L | Severianus, arrived at man's estate, who accompanied Daia in
591 XXIII | in; the age of each was estimated; and, that the capitation-tax
592 XXXVI | while Licinius lingered in Europe, to arrogate to himself
593 XLVI | each other, seemed on the eve of a battle. Then Daia made
594 XXIV | request of Constantius, one evening gave Constantine a warrant
595 VIII | presently charged, by suborned evidences, as guilty of aspiring to
596 I | name. And this will become evident, when I relate who were
597 XXIII | from whom nothing could be exacted, and whom their misery and
598 VII | but perpetual, and, in exacting them, intolerable wrongs.
599 L | to death. Daia, although exasperated against her, never ventured
600 XLIV | able generals. In forces he exceeded his adversary; for he had
601 XL | connected with the empress. Excellent beauty and virtue proved
602 XIV | That he might urge him to excess of cruelty in persecution,
603 IX | father-in-law, too, dreaded him excessively. The cause was this. Narseus,
604 XLVIII | places, either from our exchequer or from any one else, do
605 X | resentment, and purposing to excite the inconsiderate old man
606 XLIX | on the rack are wont, and exclaimed that not he, but others,
607 XI | would be enough for him to exclude persons of that religion
608 XXIX | which he had been everywhere excluded. Diocles was at the court
609 XLIX | Having undergone various and excruciating torments, he dashed his
610 II | the new religion, he, an execrable and pernicious tyrant, sprung
611 XXII | them were trampled upon and execrated, as if they had been hostile
612 L | him to be condemned and executed, under the pretence that,
613 I | that with fit vengeance He executes judgment on the proud, the
614 XLIV | and fought with the utmost exertions of valour, and firmly maintained
615 VII | of the husbandmen being exhausted by enormous impositions,
616 XXII | learned in the laws either exiled or slain. Useful letters
617 XXIII | been paid for liberty to exist; yet full trust was not
618 XXXII | whom he had made Caesar, in expectation of his thorough obsequiousness,
619 IV | for, having undertaken an expedition against the Carpi, who had
620 XLV | days. And now Licinius by expeditious marches had reached Adrianople,
621 XXXIX | and hence he insultingly expelled her from every abode that
622 XXIV | maintained at the public expense, and escaped. Next day the
623 XLVII | in desertion Before the expiration of the kalends of May, Daia
624 IX | persecuting them, I come now to explain.~
625 XLIV | victorious and Rome freed, expressed as much sorrow as if he
626 XX | Galerius having effected the expulsion of the two old men, began
627 XXXIV | all, have judged it fit to extend our indulgence to those
628 III | from her enemies, and she extended her hands unto the east
629 XVIII | governed dominions more extensive than his, and better civilized.
630 LII | scattered abroad, and to extirpate those noxious wild beasts
631 XXI | not ashamed incessantly to extol such an institution, and
632 XXXVI | own choice appear as if extorted from him by importunity.
633 VII | He also, when by various extortions he had made all things exceedingly
634 XXVI | the empire, soared to such extravagance in folly, as not to allow
635 II | has led some persons of extravagant imagination to suppose that,
636 IX | Caesar?" Then he began to act extravagantly, insomuch that, as if he
637 LII | earth. Let us therefore with exultation celebrate the triumphs of
638 XIX | their eyes on Constantine, exulted in the hope of his approaching
639 XXX | the eunuch, sprung forth exultingly, and avowed the murder.
640 XXXVIII| no sooner was any comely face discovered, than husbands
641 VIII | treasures which he had such fair opportunities of amassing.
642 XL | way that might injure her fame. To her two others, equally
643 VI | Thrace, assassinated by his familiar friends, who had taken up
644 XI | but the Christians of her family would not partake of those
645 XXXVII | levied by anticipation. Hence famine, from neglect of cultivation,
646 XXXIII | healing art withdrew."~Then famous physicians were brought
647 II | shall come to judgment, also fancy that Nero is to appear hereafter
648 VII | enormous impositions, the farms were abandoned, cultivated
649 XI | Gentiles, they continued in fasting and prayer. On this account
650 LI | her and her mother, proved fatal to both of them.~
651 XXIII | of the effects of their fathers, the most trusty slaves
652 XLV | snow, miry ways, cold and fatigue. Their carcases, scattered
653 XIX | needed repose after his fatigues, anti that he would resign
654 XI | many advisers, that his own fault might be imputed to other
655 XXX | perceived all things to be favourable for his insidious purpose.
656 L | with Daia; while Valeria favoured Licinius, and was willing
657 XXI | apartment for sport, and of his favourite diversions? He kept bears,
658 XXXVII | persons, which he made to his favourites whenever they chose to ask
659 XLI | the remembrance of past favours. This messenger, equally
660 IX | in every commotion, and fearing a fate like that of Valerian,
661 IX | own pride and Diocletian's fears were greatly increased.
662 XXXVIII| passion? Yet such epithets feebly express my indignation in
663 XXXVII | nevertheless any Christian that fell within his power was privily
664 XVIII | having reigned a single year, felt himself, either from age
665 XXXVIII| shield the honour of any female from his savage desires.
666 XXI | and for lesser crimes, fetters. Matrons of honourable station
667 VII | past. There began to be fewer men who paid taxes than
668 XXI | most resembling himself in fierceness and bulk, whom he had collected
669 XLIV | kalends of November, and the fifth year of his reign was drawing
670 XLVI | give battle earlier, to fight on the day before those
671 XLV | than with any purpose of fighting, or hope of victory: for
672 XVIII | distinguished comeliness of his figure, his strict attention to
673 XLIII | From this appearance of filial piety a suspicion arose,
674 XXIII | assembled, the market-places filled with crowds of families,
675 XIII | adultery, or theft; and, finally, that they should neither
676 XLIX | and land, he despaired of finding any place for refuge; and
677 V | back Afterward, when he had finished this shameful life under
678 XXVII | began to consider that, fired with rage on hearing of
679 XLIV | exertions of valour, and firmly maintained their ground.
680 II | obscurity, ordained and fitted them for the preaching of
681 XXVI | but they also longed to fix their residence in it. Maxentius
682 XVI | the hands of the prefect Flaccinian, no puny murderer, and afterwards
683 XXI | stake, and first a moderate flame was applied to the soles
684 XXX | entreaties as by the soothing of flattery, solicited her to betray
685 V | great dishonour, he was flayed, and his skin, stripped
686 XL | domestics having been forced to flee, they would have remained
687 XXIX | astonishingly rapid, he flew back with his army. Maximian,
688 LII | again and to restore His flock, partly laid waste by ravenous
689 XXXIII | vein burst, and the blood flowed in such quantity as to endanger
690 XXVII | not be delivered to the foe, until, by the promise of
691 XLVII | under the sword of their foes, that they seemed to have
692 XVI | profession of your faith you foiled the adversary; in nine combats
693 IX | with the multitude of their followers and with their baggage.
694 XXXIII | malady, ceased not to apply fomentations and administer medicines.
695 XXXVI | the show of clemency, he forbade the slaying of God's servants,
696 XXII | same light as magical and forbidden arts; and all who possessed
697 IX | prosperously, as long as he forbore to defile his hands with
698 XV | against all; and he began by forcing his daughter Valeria and
699 XLIX | torments, he dashed his forehead against the wall, and his
700 X | the immortal sign on their foreheads. At this the demons were
701 IX | barbarity and a savageness foreign to Roman blood; and no wonder,
702 XIX | the tending of cattle in forests to serve as a common soldier,
703 XXXVII | was ever served up, unless foretasted, consecrated, and sprinkled
704 XLIV | because the soothsayers had foretold that if he went out of it
705 XXX | XXX.~Maximian, having thus forfeited the respect due to an emperor
706 XXXIX | He pronounced sentence of forfeiture against the princess, seized
707 VII | condemnations daily, and forfeitures frequently inflicted; taxes
708 XXXV | edict, obtain the divine forgiveness. In a few days after he
709 XIII | but burnt alive, in the forms of law; and having displayed
710 XVI | through stedfast faith and the fortitude of your soul, you routed
711 XXIV | season ensued in which his fortunes began to droop and to waste
712 | forty
713 XLV | for a short space, moved forwards eighteen miles to the first
714 XXXIII | body. The stench was so foul as to pervade not only the
715 XLIII | conjecture, however, had no foundation; for his true purpose was
716 II | themselves in laying the foundations of the Church in every province
717 XXV | the second place to the fourth.~
718 XXXIX | to put away his wife. She frankly returned an answer such
719 XXIX | the imperial purple. The Franks had taken up arms. Maximian
720 XXXVIII| After having debauched freeborn maidens, he gave them for
721 XLIX | pain; and during a fit of frenzy, which lasted four days,
722 VII | frequent, and through their frequency appeared almost lawful.
723 XXIII | was measured, vines and fruit-trees numbered, lists taken of
724 II | of Ruberius Geminus and Fufius Geminus, and on the tenth
725 XXI | carcases were laid on a funeral pile, and wholly burnt;
726 XXXI | have said," How shall I furnish myself with those things,
727 VII | exactions from the provinces for furnishing wages to labourers and artificers,
728 XII | flames; the utensils and furniture of the church were abandoned
729 XLVIII | indemnification from our bounty. In furthering all which things for the
730 X | disposition, was a searcher into futurity, and during his abode in
731 XIV | sought in another way to gain on the emperor. That he
732 XLIV | exhibited the Circensian games on the anniversary of his
733 XXXIII | remedies applied, and a gangrene seized all the neighbouring
734 XVII | changed from melancholy to gay. Nevertheless there were
735 XLII | the two old emperors were generally delineated in one piece,
736 XLIV | military operations by able generals. In forces he exceeded his
737 XXXIII | intestines, anti worms were generated in his body. The stench
738 XI | while she feasted with the Gentiles, they continued in fasting
739 IX | corpulency; by his speech, gestures, and looks, he made himself
740 V | prisoner, whenever he chose to get into his carriage or to
741 XXXIII | meagre, and haggard, and his ghastly-looking skin had settled itself
742 XL | adulterer, for he was fixed to a gibbet, and then he disclosed the
743 VII | extraordinary aids and free gifts, that his original hoards
744 I | and peace and serenity gladden all hearts. And after the,
745 XX | and rule over the whole globe with unbounded licence.
746 XLIX | heaped on him. But first he gorged himself with food, and large
747 XXXVII | the daily sacrifice. By gorging his soldiers with the flesh
748 II | the earth to preach the Gospel, as the Lord their Master
749 IX | afterwards, when Galerius got the title of emperor, his
750 XVIII | while others, at their ease, governed dominions more extensive
751 V | majesty of the one God, who governs and supports all things?~
752 XXVI | this he obtained no other grace but that of an easy death,
753 XXXVII | shamelessly carry off. And now the granaries, of each individual were
754 XL | high rank who already had grandchildren by more than one son. Her
755 LI | to execution; a fall from grandeur which moved the pity of
756 IX | the example set him by his grandfather Sapores, assembled a great
757 XXIV | meant nothing less than to grant it. On the contrary, he
758 XXXVII | served in his army. As to grants of the property of living
759 XVIII | whose imagination already grasped at the whole empire, saw
760 XLVIII | purchased for a price, or gratuitously acquired them, to make application
761 IX | Diocletian's fears were greatly increased. For after this
762 I | His power and sovereign greatness in rooting out and utterly
763 XXXII | age, and to reverence the grey hairs of Licinius. But Daia
764 XLII | with his soul agitated by grief, he could neither eat nor
765 XXXI | relieved, might have made that grievance supportable; but it was
766 XXXII | Augustus. Galerius, vexed and grieved at this, commanded that
767 XLII | nor take rest. He sighed, groaned, and wept often, and incessantly
768 XLIX | mercy upon him. Then, amidst groans, like those of one burnt
769 VI | friends, who had taken up groundless suspicions against him.
770 VII | were abandoned, cultivated grounds became woodland, and universal
771 XVIII | terms, he said that age and growing infirmities disabled Diocletian
772 XVIII | in which he had already grown old. But Diocletian added,
773 XXX | open, and to be slightly guarded. Fausta undertook to do
774 X | soothsayers, either from guess or from his own observation,
775 XXII | provinces, without assessors to guide or control them.~
776 III | many well-deserving princes guided the helm of the Roman empire,
777 XLVII | purple, and having put on the habit of a slave, hasted across
778 VII | implements of war; in one place a habitation for his empress, and in
779 XXXVI | instituted should appear in white habits, that being the most honourable
780 XXXIII | part was dry, meagre, and haggard, and his ghastly-looking
781 XXXII | and to reverence the grey hairs of Licinius. But Daia became
782 XVIII | pointing out Daia, a young man, half-barbarian. Now Galerius had lately
783 VII | he projected. Here public halls, there a circus, here a
784 XLV | the soldiers. Daia did not halt in his own territories;
785 XLIX | lasted four days, he gathered handfuls of earth, and greedily devoured
786 XIX | Diocletian, with tears, harangued them, and said that he was
787 XXXI | terms the methods used to harass mankind in levying the tax,
788 XVII | but lingering disease: it harassed him without intermission,
789 XII | religion.~"That day, the harbinger of death, arose,~First cause
790 L | and, while he suspected no harm, was killed. Hearing of
791 XXIX | walls, addressed him in no harsh or hostile language, and
792 XXXIII | the prolific disease had hatched swarms much more abundant
793 XXIV | which he most dreaded, the hate and resentment of the army.
794 VIII | debauching males, which is hateful and abominable, but also
795 IX | rose to such a pitch of haughtiness as to reject the appellation
796 XXIII | money was levied for each head, as if a price had been
797 XXXIII | attempted to eradicate it, and healed up the place affected. But
798 XXXIII | disease.~"The masters of the healing art withdrew."~Then famous
799 XLIX | calamities that God had heaped on him. But first he gorged
800 VII | diminished: he was constantly heaping together extraordinary aids
801 I | forth; and now God, the hearer of prayer, by His divine
802 XLVII | Licinius. But he was not hearkened to in any quarter, and they
803 XXIX | returned into Gaul, with a heart full of wickedness, and
804 XXI | many hours, the violent heat had consumed their skin
805 I | whirlwind and black tempest, the heavens are now become calm, and
806 XVIII | Alas!" said Diocletian, heaving a deep sigh, "you do not
807 VII | of inferior officers lay heavy on each territory, and almost
808 II | and precipitated from the height of empire, suddenly disappeared,
809 XLV | resistance. Then Daia moved on to Heraclea (otherwise called Perinthus),
810 LII | surnames of the Jovii and the Herculii, once so glorious and renowned
811 XV | one after another, but a herd of them were encircled with
812 XIX | civil affairs, and from a herdsman become a leader of armies.~
813 XXVI | although he had as it were an hereditary claim to the services of
814 XXV | the quality of emperor. He hesitated long whether to receive
815 XVI | murderer, and afterwards of Hierocles, who from a deputy became
816 XVIII | that there should be two of higher rank vested with supreme
817 XXI | Having thus attained to the highest power, he bent his mind
818 XLVIII | salutary measure, and one highly consonant to right reason,
819 XVIII | emperor, there was nothing to hinder its being conferred on him
820 LII | perish, and lest any future historian of the persecutors should
821 VII | gifts, that his original hoards might remain untouched and
822 IV | his army; nor could he be honoured with the rites of sepulture,
823 XIII | depriving the Christians of all honours and dignities; ordaining
824 XXVI | father's army, and might have hoped to draw it over to himself,
825 V | carriage or to mount on horseback, commanded the Roman to
826 XLVI | repeated it after him. The host, doomed to speedy destruction,
827 XLIV | of that the battle grew hotter. The hand of the Lord prevailed,
828 VII | remarkably well cultivated, or a house of uncommon elegance, a
829 XXII | offences, those of his own household and his stewards were chastised
830 XXIII | violation of every law of humanity.~
831 XXXVIII| service. It was ill for humankind, that men who had fled from
832 XXVII | haughty spirit broken and humiliated, threw himself at the feet
833 XXI | he chose to indulge his humour, he ordered some particular
834 XXXIII | administer medicines. The humours having been repelled, the
835 XXXIII | body, Galerius received a hurt, and the blood streamed
836 XXXI | for the sustenance of the husbandman! That food should be snatched
837 VII | so that the means of the husbandmen being exhausted by enormous
838 XI | praise might be all his own; hut whenever he determined to
839 XXX | life by a death base and ignominious.~
840 XIX | empire of the East; a person ignorant alike of war and of civil
841 II | II.~In the latter days of the
842 III | III.~After an interval of some
843 VIII | in blood, overflowed with ill-gotten wealth. Add to all this
844 XXIII | wretchedness secured from ill-treatment. But this pious man had
845 XXII | amongst the soldiery, rude and illiterate men, and let loose upon
846 XVII | public, but so wan, his illness having lasted almost a year,
847 XXVIII | charged him as author of all ills and prime cause of the calamities
848 XII | searched everywhere for an image of the Divinity. The books
849 XXIII | they had not, but those imaginary effects were noted down
850 XX | adversary, frustrated all those imaginations.~
851 XXIV | waited for his death, not imagining, however, that it was so
852 XXXVIII| slaves. His conflicts also imitated the example of the emperor,
853 XXI | express law, he so acted, in imitation of the Persian kings, as
854 XXXVI | with the view of acquiring immediate popularity, abolished Galerius'
855 X | stood by, and they put the immortal sign on their foreheads.
856 XLV | Bithynia with an army much impaired; for he lost all his beasts
857 XVII | of speech, peevishly and impatiently burst away from the city.
858 XLV | of the calamities of the impending war, and the presage of
859 VII | there a workhouse for making implements of war; in one place a habitation
860 XLIX | own guilt, and lamentably implored Christ to have mercy upon
861 L | judgment of God, all the implores received according to the
862 LII | the memory of events so important should perish, and lest
863 XXXIII | AEsculapius were besought importunately for remedies: Apollo did
864 XXXVI | if extorted from him by importunity. In compliance with those
865 XX | environed as it were by an impregnable wall, he should lead an
866 XXII | punishment, as to banish, to imprison, or to send criminals to
867 XIII | edict, and cut it in pieces, improperly indeed, but with high spirit,
868 XXXVII | needs have returned from it impure and defiled. In all things
869 XI | that his own fault might be imputed to other men: and therefore
870 XXXI | pay, notwithstanding their inability. Many guards were set round,
871 XV | and lest justice should be inadvertently administered to a Christian,
872 XLII | compelled to abhor life, became incapable of receiving nourishment,
873 XV | every litigant might offer incense before his cause could be
874 XXXII | XXXII.~Maximin Daia was incensed at the nomination of Licinius
875 XVII | amidst intense cold and incessant rains, he contracted a slight
876 XXXVIII| middle rank, any who were inclined took them by force. Ladies
877 VIII | wealth. Add to all this the incontinency of that pestilent wretch,
878 IX | Diocletian's fears were greatly increased. For after this victory
879 XXIV | Constantine, journeying with incredible rapidity, reached his father,
880 XXIV | wars against himself, and incur that which he most dreaded,
881 XXXIII | God struck him with an incurable plague. A malignant ulcer
882 XXXIX | and, lastly, that it was indecent, unexampled, and unlawful
883 XLVIII | shall be at liberty to seek indemnification from our bounty. In furthering
884 XXIII | should remain no longer in indigence, he caused them all to be
885 XXXVIII| epithets feebly express my indignation in reciting his enormities.
886 XXXIII | devoured by the worms, became indiscriminate, and his body, with intolerable
887 XLVIII | places, which belonged not to individuals, but to their society in
888 XXVI | occur to Galerius also, and induce him to leave Severus in
889 XL | with other offences, was induced, through hope of pardon,
890 XVIII | either from age or from inexperience in business, unequal to
891 III | after death, with perpetual infamy. Thus, the commands of the
892 XL | commanders followed with light infantry and archers. And thus, under
893 XVIII | said that age and growing infirmities disabled Diocletian for
894 XXII | indiscriminately. He was not wont to inflict the slighter sorts of punishment,
895 V | just recompense of their iniquities. He, having been made prisoner
896 XL | death in a way that might injure her fame. To her two others,
897 XXXIII | removed, there issued forth an innumerable swarm: nevertheless the
898 XI | despatched a soothsayer to inquire of Apollo at Miletus, whose
899 IX | the Danube, and it was an inroad of the Carpi that obliged
900 XVII | being at certain times insane and at others of sound mind.~
901 VII | Diocletian, through his insatiable avarice, would never allow
902 III | statues, or traces of the inscriptions put up in honour of him;
903 XXXIII | stanched. The ulcer began to be insensible to the remedies applied,
904 XXX | to be favourable for his insidious purpose. There were few
905 XXXII | Daia became more and more insolent. He urged that, as it was
906 LII | amongst the nations; surnames insolently assumed at first by Diocles
907 XXXVIII| and all their limbs were inspected, lest any part should be
908 XXXVI | all those priests newly instituted should appear in white habits,
909 XXI | incessantly to extol such an institution, and he resolved to establish
910 XL | should speak as he had been instructed, while the torturers by
911 XXXVIII| permission; and he made this an instrument to serve the purposes of
912 XII | with axes and other iron instruments, and having been let loose
913 XXXIX | banishment; and hence he insultingly expelled her from every
914 XIV | Diocletian, shrewd and intelligent as he always chose to appear,
915 XXV | and he could not, as he intended formerly, admit Licinius,
916 XXIX | full of wickedness, and intending by treacherous devices to
917 XVII | journey in winter, amidst intense cold and incessant rains,
918 L | the death of Daia, he had intentions of assuming the imperial
919 XL | virgin at Rome, maintained an intercourse by stealth with the banished
920 XXVII | over that prince to his interest. Meantime Galerius assembled
921 XXVI | that they were not only interested to preserve the city, but
922 XVIII | resign, must consult his own interests, so as to remain no longer
923 XVII | it harassed him without intermission, so that he was obliged
924 XIX | came; but none ventured to interpose or move objections, so confounded
925 II | He opened their hearts, interpreted to them the Scripture, which
926 XL | the compassion of friends interred them by stealth. Nor was
927 XXXIII | and he cried aloud, in the intervals of raging pain, that he
928 XLVIII | those places are, by your intervention, to be immediately restored
929 XLVIII | Licinius, emperors, had an interview at Milan, and conferred
930 XX | his person, his old and intimate acquaintance, and his earliest
931 XL | married to a senator, was; intimately connected with the empress.
932 XLV | of donatives, and then to intimidate them by assault and storm.
933 XXVII | Galerius assembled his troops, invaded Italy, and advanced towards
934 XLV | by Licinius to check any invasion that Daia might make. At
935 XV | hitherto unheard of, were invented; and lest justice should
936 XXXVII | the palace. It was also an invention of his to cause all animals
937 X | soothsayers trembled, unable to investigate the wonted marks on the
938 XVI | to mankind a pattern of invincible magnanimity. Having been
939 XXXVII | paganism; and whoever was invited to an entertainment must
940 VI | and by deeds of cruelty irritated the divine wrath. He was
941 IX | that he might appear the issue of a divinity, he was willing
942 IV | IV.~This long peace, however,
943 IX | IX.~But the other Maximian (
944 XXXV | were set at liberty from a jail, which had been your residence
945 XVII | the city. The kalends of January approached, at which day
946 XLVII | swords nor yet throw their javelins. Daia went about, and, alternately
947 XXI | lest, by reason of their jaws being parched, they should
948 XLIII | relate. Daia had entertained jealousy and ill-will against Licinius
949 II | April, as I find it written, Jesus Christ was crucified by
950 II | Christ was crucified by the Jews. After He bad risen again
951 XXXIII | rained no appearance of joints. These things happened in
952 VIII | the state; for wherever he journeyed, virgins were suddenly torn
953 XXIV | Meanwhile Constantine, journeying with incredible rapidity,
954 LII | are the surnames of the Jovii and the Herculii, once so
955 XXXVI | Galerius' tax, to the great joy of all. Dissension arose
956 II | the room of the traitor Judas, and afterwards Paul. Then
957 XXIX | believed the advice to be judicious, because given by an aged
958 XLVIII | overcome; and on the ides of June, while he and Constantine
959 XII | great a fire being once kindled, some part of the city might
960 XVI | received it, is laid up in the kingdom of the Lord for your virtue
961 XVIII | is that you present?"--"A kinsman of mine."--"Alas!" said
962 L | L.~Thus did God subdue all
963 VII | for furnishing wages to labourers and artificers, and supplying
964 XLIX | acknowledged his own guilt, and lamentably implored Christ to have
965 XXII | stewards were chastised with lances, instead of rods; and, in
966 XLIX | pressed both by sea and land, he despaired of finding
967 XXIX | him in no harsh or hostile language, and demanded what he meant,
968 XVII | Immediately he grew so languid and feeble, that prayers
969 XXXVII | and bestowed every sort of largess on the barbarians who served
970 XXVII | by the promise of mighty largesses, he prevailed on them. Then
971 XXXIX | would also cast off; and, lastly, that it was indecent, unexampled,
972 I | throughout the Roman empire, the late oppressed Church arises
973 | latter
974 XXI | limbs were torn asunder, he laughed with excessive complacency:
975 XXV | Constantine, adorned with laurels, was brought to the pernicious
976 VII | frequency appeared almost lawful. But this was peculiar to
977 II | they occupied themselves in laying the foundations of the Church
978 XIX | from a herdsman become a leader of armies.~
979 XLVI | following the example of their leaders, stretched forth their hands
980 XLIII | this affinity, meant to league against him; so he privily
981 XXVIII | Maxentius, thus stripped, leaped headlong from the tribunal,
982 I | shall arise hereafter, may learn how the Almighty manifested
983 XXIV | into his presence; but he learnt that Constantine had set
984 | least
985 XXIX | father-in-law. He marched, leaving the most considerable part
986 XXI | in capital cases; and for lesser crimes, fetters. Matrons
987 V | manner, that it might be a lesson to future ages that the
988 XII | everywhere, they in a few hours levelled that very lofty edifice
989 XXXVIII| serve the purposes of his lewdness. After having debauched
990 LI | LI.~Valeria, too, who for fifteen
991 XXIII | forefathers had been made liable to a like tax imposed by
992 XLVI | into the service of one liberal even to profusion. And indeed
993 XXI | to bereave men of their liberties. He first of all degraded
994 XXXIX | Daia, in gratifying his libidinous desires, made his own will
995 I | insulted over the Divinity, lie low; they who cast down
996 XXI | the bones; then torches, lighted and put out again, were
997 LII | LII.~I relate all those things
998 VII | attempted by an ordinance to limit their prices. Then much
999 XXV | Licinius, without exceeding the limited number of emperors. But
1000 XLIV | X, with a perpendicular line drawn through it and turned