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1001 XXXVI | Galerius, and, while Licinius lingered in Europe, to arrogate to
1002 XVII | contracted a slight but lingering disease: it harassed him
1003 XV | the tribunal, that every litigant might offer incense before
1004 XVII | part to be carried in a litter. Then, at the close of summer,
1005 X | victims, that from their livers he might obtain a prognostic
1006 XXXVII | grants of the property of living persons, which he made to
1007 XLII | and, trader the double load of vexation of spirit and
1008 XII | hours levelled that very lofty edifice with the ground.~
1009 XXVI | the city, but they also longed to fix their residence in
1010 XXVIII | most power, and had been longest in possession of it; and
1011 IX | his speech, gestures, and looks, he made himself a terror
1012 XXXVI | slit, their hands and feet lopped off, and their eyes dug
1013 XVI | sort to lord it over the lords of the earth is triumph
1014 IX | empire. Diocletian, apt to be low-spirited and timorous in every commotion,
1015 XXXIII | crisis, it had occupied the lower regions of his body: his
1016 XXXIII | whole seat putrefied. The luckless physicians, although without
1017 VIII | empire; so that the chief luminaries of the senate were daily
1018 XVI | of brass, and adamantine lungs,~Not half the dreadful scene
1019 VIII | indulge to the utmost his lust and flagitious desires was
1020 XXVI | received with every sort of luxurious accommodation, so that they
1021 LII | protect His people from the machinations and assaults of the devil,
1022 XI | he could not restrain the madness of that obstinate man. He
1023 XXII | viewed in the same light as magical and forbidden arts; and
1024 XVI | a pattern of invincible magnanimity. Having been nine times
1025 XXXVIII| reciting his enormities. The magnitude of the guilt overpowers
1026 XXXVIII| having debauched freeborn maidens, he gave them for wives
1027 VII | the four princes strove to maintain a much more considerable
1028 VII | Whatever was laid on for the maintenance of the soldiery might have
1029 | makes
1030 XLII | vexation of spirit and bodily maladies, he resolved to die. Tossing
1031 XXXIII | without hope of overcoming the malady, ceased not to apply fomentations
1032 VIII | not only in debauching males, which is hateful and abominable,
1033 XXXIII | with an incurable plague. A malignant ulcer formed itself low
1034 XX | counsels he used in the management of all affairs; yet he would
1035 XXXIV | good order. "By another mandate we purpose to signify unto
1036 XV | approached than divinities. Mandates also had gone to Maximian
1037 XXXI | punishment also He might manifest the power of His majesty.
1038 I | may learn how the Almighty manifested His power and sovereign
1039 XXIV | army. Under pretence of manly exercise and recreation,
1040 XLIV | had been commanded, and he marked on their shields the letter
1041 XXIII | walls, were assembled, the market-places filled with crowds of families,
1042 IX | called the offspring of Mars; and that he might appear
1043 XXIX | had possessed himself of Marseilles (he fled thither), and shut
1044 I | them, that, by great and marvellous examples, He might teach
1045 XXXIII | was dissolved into one mass of corruption.~"Stung to
1046 XL | which Valeria gave to his matrimonial offers; and therefore he
1047 XL | XL.~There was a certain matron of high rank who already
1048 II | number, to whom were added Matthias, in the room of the traitor
1049 XLIV | lately drawn together out of Mauritania and Italy. They fought,
1050 XXXIII | the superior part was dry, meagre, and haggard, and his ghastly-looking
1051 XXIX | Maximian arrived; for Galerius, meaning now to invest Licinius with
1052 XXIII | Each spot of ground was measured, vines and fruit-trees numbered,
1053 XXIII | while he took effectual measures that none, under the reigned
1054 XI | feasted her servants on the meat offered to idols: but the
1055 XXXVII | costly raiment and gold medals, made donatives in silver
1056 XXXIII | fomentations and administer medicines. The humours having been
1057 XI | were wont with eagerness to meet death; and that it would
1058 XVII | and courtiers changed from melancholy to gay. Nevertheless there
1059 XXI | were directed to all the members of their bodies, so that
1060 XXIII | impositions. There remained mendicants alone, from whom nothing
1061 LII | oftentimes with praises make mention of His victory; let us in
1062 VII | in magnificence. I omit mentioning how many perished on account
1063 LII | please Him propitiously and mercifully to continue His pity towards
1064 XLVIII | reverence paid to the Divinity merited our first and chief attention,
1065 XVIII | very great worth, and well meriting the high station of Caesar.
1066 XXXIX | being yet expired. He sent a message to her proposing marriage,
1067 XXXII | authority. Galerius, by repeated messages, besought Daia to yield,
1068 XLI | remembrance of past favours. This messenger, equally unsuccessful in
1069 XLI | befallen her. He despatched messengers to Daia, requesting that
1070 XXXI | relate in fit terms the methods used to harass mankind in
1071 XI | to inquire of Apollo at Miletus, whose answer wa such as
1072 XV | fire; and servants, having millstones tied about their necks,
1073 XLIV | encamped them opposite to the Milvian bridge. The anniversary
1074 XIX | so confounded were their minds at the strange and unlooked-for
1075 XXVII | means of subsistence in a mined country. So the parts of
1076 XXII | criminals to work in the mines; but to burn, to crucify,
1077 VII | there a circus, here a mint, and there a workhouse for
1078 II | unto him, wrought certain miracles, and, by turning many to
1079 XLV | excessive rains and snow, miry ways, cold and fatigue.
1080 XVIII | Galerius, a man of bad and mischievous dispositions, and so proud
1081 XXI | to a stake, and first a moderate flame was applied to the
1082 IV | themselves of Dacia and Moefia, he was suddenly surrounded
1083 XXI | faces, and their mouths moistened, lest, by reason of their
1084 XLVIII | be disturbed any ways, or molested. And we thought fit to be
1085 XLVI | he arose, and that his monitor, who was nigh him, directed
1086 XXXVIII| killed themselves. While this monster ruled, it was singular deformity
1087 XXXV | Nicomedia before the end of the month. His vicennial anniversary
1088 V | presently Valerian also, in a mood alike frantic, lifted up
1089 XXIV | commanded him to set out next morning with the imperial despatches.
1090 XVII | Diocletian: but early on the morrow it was suddenly rumoured
1091 XXX | like a stone, silent and motionless;"~while Constantine upbraided
1092 XI | votary of the gods of the mountains. Being of such a character,
1093 I | from the faces of those who mourned. They who insulted over
1094 XXXIX | in weeds, the time of her mourning not being yet expired. He
1095 XIX | ventured to interpose or move objections, so confounded
1096 XLVII | and forces so mighty, were mowed down by an inferior enemy.
1097 VII | been quartered, armies were multiplied, and each of the four princes
1098 VII | having proved destructive to multitudes, was from mere necessity
1099 XXX | exultingly, and avowed the murder. At that moment Constantine
1100 XLVI | speedy destruction, heard the murmur of the prayers of their
1101 XXI | of their feet, until the muscles, contracted by burning,
1102 XXXII | that at the last general muster he had been saluted by his
1103 XXXVI | command that they should be mutilated. So the confessors for the
1104 | myself
1105 IV | sepulture, but, stripped and naked, he lay to be devoured by
1106 III | had not penetrated, or any nation of manners so barbarous
1107 IX | wild beast there dwelt a native barbarity and a savageness
1108 XXXIII | his body had lost their natural form: the superior part
1109 XXXI | supportable; but it was necessary for every one who appeared
1110 XXX | most haughty man had his neck broken, and ended his detestable
1111 XIX | was become infirm, that he needed repose after his fatigues,
1112 XXXVII | anticipation. Hence famine, from neglect of cultivation, and the
1113 XLI | equally unsuccessful in his negotiation as the others. reported
1114 XLIV | his whole forces to the neighbourhood of Rome, and encamped them
1115 XXXVI | commanded that all those priests newly instituted should appear
1116 XL | This tragedy was acted at Nicaea. The Jew was ordered to
1117 XLVII | space of one day and two nights he performed that journey.
1118 XVII | the consulship, for the ninth time, was to be offered
1119 XL | her two others, equally noble, were added. One of them,
1120 XXIII | children and slaves, the noise of torture and scourges
1121 XXIV | in his bed-chamber until noon, ordered Constantine to
1122 XXXVI | faith had their ears and nostrils slit, their hands and feet
1123 XXIII | those imaginary effects were noted down in the lists. Neither
1124 XLVI | And indeed it was on this notion that he began the war. He
1125 XLII | became incapable of receiving nourishment, and, worn out with anguish
1126 XLIV | sixth of the kalends of November, and the fifth year of his
1127 | nowhere
1128 XXIII | measured, vines and fruit-trees numbered, lists taken of animals
1129 VII | frequently inflicted; taxes on numberless commodities, and those not
1130 XLV | busied in solemnizing the nuptials, he moved out of Syria in
1131 XXXI | myself with those things, O tyrant void of understanding,
1132 XVIII | would never pay the wonted obeisance either to his father or
1133 XLVIII | that our orders be speedily obeyed, and our gracious purpose
1134 XIX | ventured to interpose or move objections, so confounded were their
1135 XXIII | and no sooner did agony oblige them to acknowledge what
1136 XXV | against whose inclination obscure or unknown Caesars had been
1137 XXXII | expectation of his thorough obsequiousness, forgot the great favour
1138 XXXIV | betake themselves to the observance of the ancient institutions,
1139 X | from guess or from his own observation, said, "There are profane
1140 II | heard of those things, and observed that not only in Rome, but
1141 XXXIV | of them, that instead of observing those ancient institutions,
1142 XLIX | right, broke through all obstacles, and Daia at length fled
1143 XXXII | length, overcome by the obstinacy of Daia, abolished the subordinate
1144 XI | restrain the madness of that obstinate man. He resolved, therefore,
1145 X | profane persons here, who obstruct the rites." Then Diocletian,
1146 XXVII | at the very time of his obtaining sovereign power, he had
1147 XVIII | will he act when once he obtains power?"--"But Constantine
1148 XXVI | this consideration might occur to Galerius also, and induce
1149 XXXIV | assemblies; yet so as that they offend not against good order. "
1150 XV | that every litigant might offer incense before his cause
1151 XXXIX | proposing marriage, and offering, on her compliance, to put
1152 XL | gave to his matrimonial offers; and therefore he charged
1153 IX | for and to be called the offspring of Mars; and that he might
1154 XVIII | name of Maximian, for the omen's sake, because Maximian
1155 VII | Rome in magnificence. I omit mentioning how many perished
1156 XLIX | stomach, could not immediately operate, but it produced a grievous
1157 VIII | treasures which he had such fair opportunities of amassing. Whenever he
1158 XI | empire. The old man long opposed the fury of Galerius, and
1159 XIX | to trample under foot and oppress the empire of the East;
1160 XVII | become more grievous and oppressing; yet he caused himself to
1161 XXXI | pretext for repeating his oppressions. Who can relate in fit terms
1162 VIII | empire, and while other very opulent provinces, such as Africa
1163 II | wrapped up in obscurity, ordained and fitted them for the
1164 XXVIII | who deserted Severus had originally served in his own army.
1165 L | had been thrown into the Orontes, in which river she herself
1166 | ourselves
1167 XXIII | were exhibited, like the outrages of victorious enemies, and
1168 L | himself at Nicomedia, had an outward show of honour paid to him,
1169 XXXIII | although without hope of overcoming the malady, ceased not to
1170 VIII | treasury, delighting in blood, overflowed with ill-gotten wealth.
1171 XXXVIII| The magnitude of the guilt overpowers my tongue, and makes it
1172 XXIX | by treacherous devices to overreach Constantine, who was not
1173 IX | ambush for them, and easily overthrew men embarrassed with the
1174 I | and the temple of God, overthrown by the hands of the wicked,
1175 VII | partly by timid counsels, overturned the Roman empire. For he
1176 XXVIII | was to him that Maximian owed on this occasion the imperial
1177 XXXVII | according to the rites of paganism; and whoever was invited
1178 XXXIII | before. He grew emaciated, pallid, and feeble, and the bleeding
1179 XXXVIII| its office. Eunuchs and panders made search everywhere,
1180 XLVII | charged. But the enemies, panic-struck, could neither draw their
1181 XLIX | and there, by erecting parapets and towers, attempted to
1182 XXI | reason of their jaws being parched, they should expire. At
1183 XXIX | rebel emperor, and unnatural parent and a perfidious father-in-law,
1184 XLVI | presently abandon an emperor parsimonious in his donatives, and enter
1185 XI | of her family would not partake of those entertainments;
1186 XXV | received that prince into partnership of power with him. And now
1187 XXXIII | wonder, for by that time the passages from his bladder and bowels,
1188 XIX | descended from the tribunal, and passed through Nicomedia in a chariot;
1189 XLIX | and again occupied the passes of mount Taurus; and there,
1190 XIV | and never allowing the passions of the inconsiderate old
1191 XXXVII | flocks were driven from their pasture for the daily sacrifice.
1192 LII | beasts who had trod down its pastures, and destroyed its resting-places.
1193 XIII | having displayed admirable patience under sufferings, he was
1194 XVI | you displayed to mankind a pattern of invincible magnanimity.
1195 XXXI | pretext, he had, by new taxes payable in gold and silver, oppressed
1196 XVIII | approved himself a faithful paymaster and purveyor of the army;
1197 XXXI | to whom he ought to make payment first. There was no dispensation
1198 VII | almost lawful. But this was peculiar to him, that whenever he
1199 XXIX | he had acted in a way so peculiarly unbecoming him. But Maximian
1200 XVII | Roman freedom of speech, peevishly and impatiently burst away
1201 XXIII | victorious Trajan, as a penalty on the Dacians for their
1202 XLVIII | ample and unconditional; and perceive at the same tithe that the
1203 XXVI | with a few soldiers. But perceiving that he was about to be
1204 XLVIII | and that this be performed peremptorily and unambiguously; and we
1205 XVII | yet he never attained to perfect health again, for he became
1206 XXIX | and unnatural parent and a perfidious father-in-law, was dragged
1207 XLIV | now he came to know the perfidy of Daia; for he found the
1208 XXXI | emperor might be enabled to perform his vow of celebrating a
1209 | perhaps
1210 XXXVIII| unless with the imperial permission; and he made this an instrument
1211 XXXIV | indulgence to those men, and to permit them again to be Christians,
1212 XLIV | shields the letter X, with a perpendicular line drawn through it and
1213 XXIII | did this man presume to perpetrate against Romans and the subjects
1214 XVIII | the banks of the Danube, perpetually struggling against barbarous
1215 V | triumph so signal might be perpetuated, and that this spectacle
1216 IX | and what cause he had for persecuting them, I come now to explain.~
1217 II | should also be the last persecutor, and thus prove the forerunner
1218 XVI | you of your fidelity and persevering resolution. This it is to
1219 XXXIV | because great numbers still persist in their opinions, and because
1220 XI | priority of rank. Some, through personal ill-will towards the Christians,
1221 XXXIV | men of widely different persuasions. "After the publication
1222 XXXIII | stench was so foul as to pervade not only the palace, but
1223 XLIX | disease, resembling the pestilence; and his life was prolonged
1224 XXXVIII| be taken by force, were petitioned for, and obtained from the
1225 XLII | generally delineated in one piece, the portraits of both were
1226 XIII | this edict, and cut it in pieces, improperly indeed, but
1227 XLIII | this appearance of filial piety a suspicion arose, that
1228 XXI | carcases were laid on a funeral pile, and wholly burnt; their
1229 XII | church were abandoned to pillage: all was rapine, confusion,
1230 XXVII | were wasted, all things pillaged, matrons forced, virgins
1231 XIX | the purple; and there a pillar, with the statue of Jupiter,
1232 XXIII | ill-treatment. But this pious man had compassion on them,
1233 IX | victory he rose to such a pitch of haughtiness as to reject
1234 XXXVII | they disdained their wonted pittance in corn, and wantonly threw
1235 XXXIII | struck him with an incurable plague. A malignant ulcer formed
1236 I | their guilty souls amidst plagues inflicted by Heaven, and
1237 XLVI | advanced. A barren and open plain, called Campus Serenus,
1238 XIII | were debarred from being plaintiffs in questions of wrong, adultery,
1239 XXV | power with him. And now his plans were deranged, and he could
1240 V | Romans delineate on board or plaster." Valerian lived for a considerable
1241 XXII | eloquence was extinguished, pleaders cut off, and the learned
1242 LII | implore the Lord that it would please Him propitiously and mercifully
1243 XVI | world and its terrors. How pleasing the spectacle to God, when
1244 XXIII | but because they added at pleasure to the former rates, lest
1245 XIV | force a confession of the plot. He sat on his tribunal,
1246 XXX | by impunity, formed new plots against Constantine. He
1247 XIV | concert with the eunuchs, had plotted to destroy the princes;
1248 XXVII | disperse themselves, and to plunder and destroy far and wide,
1249 XVIII | Him," said Galerius, pointing out Daia, a young man, half-barbarian.
1250 XV | and his wife Prisca to be polluted by sacrificing. Eunuchs,
1251 XXXVI | view of acquiring immediate popularity, abolished Galerius' tax,
1252 VII | were divided into minute portions, and many presidents and
1253 VII | perished on account of their possessions or wealth; for such evils
1254 I | examples, He might teach posterity that He alone is God, and
1255 XXI | scourged, there were four posts fixed in the ground, and
1256 XLII | threw himself into various postures, now on his couch, and now
1257 I | my best beloved Donatus, pour forth in His presence all
1258 XXIII | under the reigned pretext of poverty, should elude the tax, he
1259 XXI | were gathered, ground to powder, and thrown into the river,
1260 XXI | way. It is the manner and practice of the Persians for the
1261 XI | without advice, that the praise might be all his own; hut
1262 LII | God, and oftentimes with praises make mention of His victory;
1263 II | throughout all the earth to preach the Gospel, as the Lord
1264 II | and fitted them for the preaching of His word and doctrine,
1265 XX | of health declining and precarious. He looked for the speedy
1266 XXXV | at Nicomedia on the day preceding the kalends of May, in the
1267 XXXVII | things else he resembled his preceptor Galerius. For if aught chanced
1268 II | bereaved of authority, and precipitated from the height of empire,
1269 XLVI | the kalends of May; for precisely eight years before Daia
1270 XLV | the impending war, and the presage of a like destruction that
1271 XV | the emperor, were slain. Presbyters and other officers of the
1272 XXXIII | for remedies: Apollo did prescribe, and the distemper augmented.
1273 L | Candidianus. The youth, presenting himself at Nicomedia, had
1274 XLIV | bridge; but the multitude pressing on him, he was driven headlong
1275 XXIII | conquered, the like did this man presume to perpetrate against Romans
1276 VI | God, became more bold and presumptuous.~
1277 XXIX | might confer together, as he pretended, about the settlement of
1278 XLI | sent to him. He could not prevail. Again and again he entreated;
1279 XL | while the torturers by blows prevented the women from speaking
1280 XXXIII | swarms much more abundant to prey upon and consume his intestines.
1281 IX | with much spoil, his own pride and Diocletian's fears were
1282 XXVIII | as author of all ills and prime cause of the calamities
1283 XXXIX | of forfeiture against the princess, seized her goods, removed
1284 XVI | the hands of his successor Priscillian, you displayed to mankind
1285 XXXV | of Maximin Daia. Then the prison-gates having been thrown open,
1286 XV | every one to sacrifice. The prisons were crowded; tortures,
1287 XXVII | sufficient to invest the walls. Probably, having never seen Rome,
1288 XLIV | his soldiers, and so to proceed to battle. He did as he
1289 X | service. Thus far his rage proceeded; but at that season he did
1290 XXXVI | for this end, he secretly procured addresses from different
1291 XXXI | violently seize its expected produce?" Thus, throughout the dominions
1292 X | observation, said, "There are profane persons here, who obstruct
1293 XVI | nine times by a glorious profession of your faith you foiled
1294 XLVIII | amongst those things that are profitable to mankind in general, the
1295 XXVI | soldiers of that body, who, profiting of the opportunity, put
1296 XLVI | service of one liberal even to profusion. And indeed it was on this
1297 X | livers he might obtain a prognostic of events; and while he
1298 XLV | first station. Here his progress was stopped; for Licinius
1299 XXXVIII| length he introduced a custom prohibiting marriage unless with the
1300 VII | requisite to the works which he projected. Here public halls, there
1301 XX | and peace. Such were his projects; but God, whom he had made
1302 XXXIII | swarm: nevertheless the prolific disease had hatched swarms
1303 XLIX | pestilence; and his life was prolonged only that his sufferings
1304 XLVIII | the public tranquillity promoted. So shall that divine favour
1305 VIII | avarice, had a bolder spirit, prone not to good, but to evil.
1306 XXXIX | and furious resentment. He pronounced sentence of forfeiture against
1307 XLVIII | Daia into his service, and properly distributed them, transported
1308 XXXVII | army. As to grants of the property of living persons, which
1309 II | affirming that the two prophets Enoch and Elias have been
1310 XLVIII | heaven, might be benign and propitious to us, and to every one
1311 LII | that it would please Him propitiously and mercifully to continue
1312 XVIII | accrue to him from this proposal, and therefore replied that
1313 XVIII | a deep sigh, "you do not propose men fit for the charge of
1314 XXVII | of the Roman name; and he proposed that the empire should be
1315 VII | straightway prepared against the proprietor; so that it seemed as if
1316 XLII | twenty years was the most prosperous of emperors, having been
1317 IX | nevertheless he reigned most prosperously, as long as he forbore to
1318 I | divine aid has lifted His prostrate and afflicted servants from
1319 XXIV | frustrated; for the power of God protected Constantine, and in the
1320 XXXVI | the toleration and general protection granted by Galerius to the
1321 XL | with his last breath he protested to all the beholders that
1322 XIV | hurried out of the city, protesting that he fled to escape being
1323 II | last persecutor, and thus prove the forerunner of Antichrist!
1324 XVIII | have been my labours in providing for the security of the
1325 XLVIII | that, without regard to any provisos in our former orders to
1326 XXXVI | from worshipping God either publicly or in private; and he authorized
1327 VII | plan." Then they were to be pulled down, or altered, to undergo
1328 XVI | the prefect Flaccinian, no puny murderer, and afterwards
1329 XXIV | day the emperor, having purposely remained in his bed-chamber
1330 XXVII | that, if there were any pursuers, they might be deprived
1331 XVIII | a faithful paymaster and purveyor of the army; and, indeed,
1332 XXXV | brought on an universal putrefaction. Dying, he recommended his
1333 XXXIII | out, and his whole seat putrefied. The luckless physicians,
1334 XXXIII | the blood flowed in such quantity as to endanger his life.
1335 XLIII | old man had but feigned a quarrel with his son that he might
1336 VII | the empire having been quartered, armies were multiplied,
1337 XXXII | animal was stung to the quick, and bellowed when the mean
1338 XIV | but that was perceived quickly, and extinguished. Still,
1339 XXIV | long been, in peace and quiet. Constantine Augustus, having
1340 VII | great part of the city was quitted, and all men removed with
1341 XLIX | the end, as if he had been racked into confession, he acknowledged
1342 XVI | been nine times exposed to racks and diversified torments,
1343 XV | XV.~And now Diocletian raged, not only against his own
1344 XXXIII | aloud, in the intervals of raging pain, that he would re-edify
1345 XLIV | Greatest a theme of abuse and raillery.~
1346 XXXVII | very numerous, with costly raiment and gold medals, made donatives
1347 XXXIII | distended like bladders, re rained no appearance of joints.
1348 XI | pernicious it would be to raise disturbances throughout
1349 XXXI | their goods, and all was raked together into the imperial
1350 XVII | lamentation, and the courtiers ran to and fro; there was silence
1351 XXXII | or allow himself to be ranked as third in authority. Galerius,
1352 XXIX | by marches astonishingly rapid, he flew back with his army.
1353 XXIV | journeying with incredible rapidity, reached his father, who
1354 XXIII | at pleasure to the former rates, lest they should seem to
1355 XXVII | Roman emperor, but now the ravager of Italy, retire into his
1356 II | tyrant, sprung forward to raze the heavenly temple and
1357 XXXIII | distended like bladders, re rained no appearance of
1358 XXXIII | raging pain, that he would re-edify the Church which he had
1359 I | tranquillity having been re-established throughout the Roman empire,
1360 XVIII | his father-in-law on the re-establishment of his health, but to force
1361 XXIII | to death a multitude of real wretches, in violation of
1362 XLIV | field. The bridge in his rear was broken down. At sight
1363 XXIX | admitted into the city. The rebel emperor, and unnatural parent
1364 XXIII | Dacians for their frequent rebellions. After this, money was levied
1365 XLVIII | exhorted the Christians to rebuild their religious edifices.
1366 III | admirable edifices, and rebuilt the Capitol, and left other
1367 XXXVIII| express my indignation in reciting his enormities. The magnitude
1368 VI | VI.~Aurelian might have recollected the fate of the captived
1369 XXXVII | it away. Meanwhile Daia recompensed his bodyguards, who were
1370 XXIX | purpose was, under colour of reconciliation, to find an opportunity
1371 XVI | scene could I disclose,"~or recount the punishments inflicted
1372 XX | although that prince should recover, it seemed not difficult
1373 XVII | although he in some measure recovered, yet he never attained to
1374 XXIV | pretence of manly exercise and recreation, he made him combat with
1375 XXXVII | the common soldiers and recruits, and bestowed every sort
1376 XXIII | and thus the tributes were redoubled, not because the new surveyors
1377 XXXIV | have hitherto studied to reduce all things to a conformity
1378 XXVI | the same time Galerius had reduced the Pretorian Guards. There
1379 XXVI | over to himself, yet he reflected that this consideration
1380 XI | persons burnt alive who refused to sacrifice.~
1381 XXVI | Severus, exhorted him to regain his dominion and sovereignty,
1382 XV | distinction of sex or age was regarded; and because of their great
1383 II | His word and doctrine, and regulated all things concerning the
1384 XLVIII | comprehend all such within the regulation aforesaid, and we will that
1385 XXXIV | XXXIV.~"Amongst our other regulations for the permanent advantage
1386 XLVI | armies of Licinius; and, thus reinforced, he meant forthwith to have
1387 XLIII | others, and then to have reinstated himself and Diocletian in
1388 XXIV | began his administration by reinstating the holy religion.~
1389 IX | pitch of haughtiness as to reject the appellation of Caesar;
1390 XLIV | acknowledged as emperor, with great rejoicings, by the senate and people
1391 XLI | At length he employed a relation of his, a military man high
1392 XXXVI | receiving this news, hasted with relays of horses from the East,
1393 XXXI | however, of being afterwards relieved, might have made that grievance
1394 XLVIII | exercise of their respective religions is granted to all others,
1395 V | others; and he wasted the remainder of his days in the vilest
1396 XXVII | the enemy. Already had his remaining soldiers begun to waver,
1397 III | his name, as to leave no remains of his statues, or traces
1398 VII | whenever he saw a field remarkably well cultivated, or a house
1399 XLIX | sought death as the only remedy of those calamities that
1400 XXVII | of Romans against Rome, renounced his authority, and carried
1401 LII | Herculii, once so glorious and renowned amongst the nations; surnames
1402 XXXIX | of her husband, she had repaired to Daia, because she imagined
1403 XXXI | used the like pretext for repeating his oppressions. Who can
1404 XVII | throughout the city, and a report went of the death, and even
1405 XXIII | yet full trust was not reposed on the same set of surveyors,
1406 XXV | of the danger, and they represented that, if Constantine came
1407 XXIX | imperial robe, and, after this reprimand, obtained his life.~
1408 V | he said, with a smile of reproach, "This is true, and not
1409 XLVII | No one called to mind his reputation, or former valour, or the
1410 XXXII | impiously withstood the requests and will of his benefactor.
1411 XV | Herculius and Constantius, requiring their concurrence in the
1412 VII | carriages and whatever else was requisite to the works which he projected.
1413 I | has raised up princes to rescind the impious and sanguinary
1414 III | of the tyrant having been rescinded, the Church was not only
1415 XXIV | very moment of jeopardy rescued him from the hands of Galerius.
1416 XL | multitude from violently rescuing the condemned persons out
1417 XXXVII | defiled. In all things else he resembled his preceptor Galerius.
1418 II | distant region, he is still reserved alive; and to him they apply
1419 XLVIII | them to the Christians: reserving always to such persons,
1420 XXIII | the common people, whether residing within or without the walls,
1421 XX | in conclusion, to have resigned, as Diocletian had done.
1422 VIII | more avaricious and less resolute, and that Maximian, with
1423 XXVII | and advanced towards Rome, resolving to extinguish the senate
1424 XXIII | of torture and scourges resounded, sons were hung on the rack
1425 XI | opinion that their conferences respected the most momentous affairs
1426 XXXVI | of government in things respecting religion, and for each city
1427 XLVIII | and free exercise of their respective religions is granted to
1428 XXXI | season of the year, the least respite from exactions. Different
1429 XLIV | should perish."~Led by this response to the hopes of victory,
1430 LII | pastures, and destroyed its resting-places. Where now are the surnames
1431 XLVIII | that the persons making restitution without a price paid shall
1432 XI | the army. Yet he could not restrain the madness of that obstinate
1433 XXVIII | might expel Maxentius and resume his ancient dominion. This
1434 XLV | towards Daia rather indeed to retard his operations than with
1435 XXVII | now the ravager of Italy, retire into his own territories,
1436 XXX | he asked, and instantly revealed the whole to her husband.
1437 XLIV | Rome, and Maxentius was reviled as one who had abandoned
1438 II | place, a great multitude revolted daily from the worship of
1439 XLVII | valour, or the honourable rewards which had been conferred
1440 VIII | stood in need of more, the richest senators were presently
1441 L | had denied to Daia, all rights accruing to her as the widow
1442 XXIII | XXIII.~But that which gave rise to public and universal
1443 II | by the Jews. After He bad risen again on the third day,
1444 XII | That church, situated on rising ground, was within view
1445 XXVIII | with a childish spirit of rivalry; and therefore he began
1446 XLIII | opportunity to destroy his rivals in power, and so make way
1447 XLV | carcases, scattered about the roads, seemed an emblem of the
1448 XLIX | sitting in judgment on him. He roared out as men on the rack are
1449 XXXIII | bellowed with the pain, ~So roars the wounded bull."~They
1450 XL | upright judge, but of a robber. Neither indeed was there
1451 XXXVII | that are given to merciful robbers, who spoil without murdering.~
1452 XXII | with lances, instead of rods; and, in great offences,
1453 XXX | that mightiest sovereign of Rome--who ruled so long with exceeding
1454 IX | willing that his mother Romula should be dishonoured with
1455 IX | if he had been a second Romulus, he wished to pass for and
1456 L | His name,so that neither root nor branch of for Licinius,
1457 I | and sovereign greatness in rooting out and utterly destroying
1458 IX | For after this victory he rose to such a pitch of haughtiness
1459 II | Tiberius, in the consulship of Ruberius Geminus and Fufius Geminus,
1460 XXII | from amongst the soldiery, rude and illiterate men, and
1461 I | fallen with more tremendous ruin; and the tormentors of just
1462 VII | and deviser of misery, was ruining all things, he could not
1463 XVI | punishments inflicted by the rulers in every province on religious
1464 XVII | the morrow it was suddenly rumoured that he still lived. At
1465 X | of events; and while he sacrificed, some attendants of his,
1466 V | since God so punished the sacrilegious, is it not strange that
1467 XVIII | Maximian, for the omen's sake, because Maximian Herculius
1468 VII | afraid to expose aught to sale, and the scarcity became
1469 XLVIII | therefore we judged it a salutary measure, and one highly
1470 VIII | must have been in them a sameness of inclinations and purposes,
1471 I | rescind the impious and sanguinary edicts of the tyrants and
1472 XIII | the triumphs of Goths and Sarmatians." Having been instantly
1473 XIV | confession of the plot. He sat on his tribunal, and saw
1474 XXVI | arranged in some measure to the satisfaction of Galerius, when another
1475 XIV | XIV.~But Galerius, not satisfied with the tenor of the edict,
1476 IX | a native barbarity and a savageness foreign to Roman blood;
1477 XXI | of slaves. What shall I say of his apartment for sport,
1478 XIII | indeed, but with high spirit, saying in scorn, "These are the
1479 XL | also, whom this proceeding, scandalous and unheard of, had brought
1480 XXIX | Constantine, by reason of his scanty forces, might be overpowered.
1481 XLV | men, while he himself had scarce thirty thousand; for his
1482 VII | expose aught to sale, and the scarcity became more excessive and
1483 XVI | lungs,~Not half the dreadful scene could I disclose,"~or recount
1484 XXIII | severe scrutiny, horrible scenes were exhibited, like the
1485 V | Roman name remained long the scoff and derision of the barbarians:
1486 XIII | with high spirit, saying in scorn, "These are the triumphs
1487 II | interpreted to them the Scripture, which hitherto had been
1488 XII | Divinity. The books of the Holy Scriptures were found, and they were
1489 XXIII | in a general and severe scrutiny, horrible scenes were exhibited,
1490 XXXVII | shut, anti all warehouses sealed up, and taxes, not yet due,
1491 XXXVIII| Eunuchs and panders made search everywhere, and no sooner
1492 X | timorous disposition, was a searcher into futurity, and during
1493 XXXVI | country as far as the narrow seas of Chalcedon. On his entry
1494 XLVIII | so that that God, who is seated in heaven, might be benign
1495 XLVI | he sent for one of his secretaries, and dictated these words
1496 XXIII | misery and wretchedness secured from ill-treatment. But
1497 XXXIV | they themselves may live securely in their habitations."~
1498 XLVIII | our gracious purpose in securing the public tranquillity
1499 XLIV | ground. In the meantime a sedition arose at Rome, and Maxentius
1500 XLVII | and promises, attempted to seduce the soldiers of Licinius.