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1501 XXIX | Constantine drew nigh, and seeing Maximian on the walls, addressed
1502 XLVIII | paid shall be at liberty to seek indemnification from our
1503 | seems
1504 XXXVI | and Daia met on the narrow sees, concluded a treaty, and
1505 XXIX | murdering Galerius, and of seizing his share of the empire,
1506 XXII | banish, to imprison, or to send criminals to work in the
1507 XI | to do ill, which he was sensible would be blamed, he called
1508 XXXIX | resentment. He pronounced sentence of forfeiture against the
1509 XII | ought to be set on fire. The sentiment of Diocletian prevailed,
1510 XLIII | him by Galerius; and those sentiments still subsisted, notwithstanding
1511 IV | honoured with the rites of sepulture, but, stripped and naked,
1512 I | dispelled, and peace and serenity gladden all hearts. And
1513 XLVI | open plain, called Campus Serenus, lay between the two armies.
1514 V | captivity and most abject and servile state; neither indeed was
1515 V | present his back; then, setting his foot on the shoulders
1516 L | daughter of Daia, who was seven years old, and had been
1517 XII | Terminus, celebrated on the sevens of the kalends of March,
1518 XII | consulship of Diocletian and seventh of Maximian, suddenly, while
1519 XLV | for Daia had an army of seventy thousand men, while he himself
1520 XV | alive, no distinction of sex or age was regarded; and
1521 XLVII | deserted, there seemed to be no shame in desertion Before the
1522 V | when he had finished this shameful life under so great dishonour,
1523 XXXVII | that did Daia greedily and shamelessly carry off. And now the granaries,
1524 VII | guilty of rapine without also shedding blood.~
1525 XXXVIII| deformity alone which could shield the honour of any female
1526 XXXVI | They stood on the opposite shores with their armies. Peace,
1527 XXII | beheaded was an indulgence shown to very few; and it seemed
1528 XIV | own palace. Diocletian, shrewd and intelligent as he always
1529 XXIII | youth, nor old age, nor sickness, afforded any exemption.
1530 XVIII | Diocletian, heaving a deep sigh, "you do not propose men
1531 XLII | neither eat nor take rest. He sighed, groaned, and wept often,
1532 XXXVIII| warrant having been once signed, he had no alternative bat
1533 XXXIV | another mandate we purpose to signify unto magistrates how they
1534 XVII | ran to and fro; there was silence throughout the city, and
1535 XXX | aghast,~"Stood like a stone, silent and motionless;"~while Constantine
1536 VI | headstrong, he forgot both his sin and its punishment, and
1537 XVIII | after having reigned a single year, felt himself, either
1538 XVIII | others and conspicuous, to sink into the obscurity of a
1539 XLIII | When Daia heard that the sister of Constantine was betrothed
1540 XLIX | arrayed in white robes, sitting in judgment on him. He roared
1541 XII | confusion, tumult. That church, situated on rising ground, was within
1542 XXVIII | harangue on the calamitous situation of public affairs. After
1543 XLIV | approached, that is, the sixth of the kalends of November,
1544 XLVII | distant one hundred and sixty miles from the field of
1545 XXVII | to be little superior in size to those cities with which
1546 XXXIII | sore, after having been skinned over, broke out again; a
1547 XLVII | having put on the habit of a slave, hasted across the Thracian
1548 V | the vilest condition of slavery: for Sapores, the king of
1549 X | in the East he began to slay victims, that from their
1550 XXXVI | clemency, he forbade the slaying of God's servants, but he
1551 XLVI | what words. Awaking from sleep, he sent for one of his
1552 XXII | not wont to inflict the slighter sorts of punishment, as
1553 XXX | be left open, and to be slightly guarded. Fausta undertook
1554 XXXVI | their ears and nostrils slit, their hands and feet lopped
1555 XXI | they should be burnt at a slow fire. They were fixed to
1556 XXII | without hesitation. For smaller offences, those of his own
1557 V | Valerian, he said, with a smile of reproach, "This is true,
1558 XXIV | contrary, he laid repeated snares for the life of that young
1559 XVI | enemy can dislodge, or wolf snatch, from the heavenly camp;
1560 XXXI | husbandman! That food should be snatched from the mouths of those
1561 XLV | consequence of excessive rains and snow, miry ways, cold and fatigue.
1562 XXVI | taxes to devour the empire, soared to such extravagance in
1563 XXXIV | together into different societies many men of widely different
1564 II | to flight; and while He sojourned with them forty days, He
1565 III | honour of him; and by most solemn and severe decrees it branded
1566 XX | After that, he meant to have solemnized the vicennial festival;
1567 XLV | that they were busied in solemnizing the nuptials, he moved out
1568 XXI | flame was applied to the soles of their feet, until the
1569 XXX | the soothing of flattery, solicited her to betray her husband.
1570 XXXIX | he would not refrain from soliciting the widow of Galerius, the
1571 XXX | by entreaties as by the soothing of flattery, solicited her
1572 XI | that end he despatched a soothsayer to inquire of Apollo at
1573 XXXIII | place affected. But the sore, after having been skinned
1574 XXII | to inflict the slighter sorts of punishment, as to banish,
1575 I | poured out their guilty souls amidst plagues inflicted
1576 XVII | insane and at others of sound mind.~
1577 IX | Diocletian before he attained sovereignty--occupied himself in subverting
1578 VIII | provinces, such as Africa and Spain, were near at hand, he took
1579 XL | prevented the women from speaking in their own defence. The
1580 XXI | he ever sup without being spectator of the effusion of human
1581 XLVIII | the end that our orders be speedily obeyed, and our gracious
1582 XVIII | hearing his discourse, the spiritless old man burst into tears,
1583 III | shone forth with additional splendour, and became more and more
1584 XXXI | dominions of Galerius, men were spoiled of their goods, and all
1585 XXI | say of his apartment for sport, and of his favourite diversions?
1586 XXIII | state of captives. Each spot of ground was measured,
1587 XXXVII | foretasted, consecrated, and sprinkled with wine, according to
1588 XXIV | carried off from the principal stages all the horses maintained
1589 XXI | fire. They were fixed to a stake, and first a moderate flame
1590 XXXIII | feeble, and the bleeding then stanched. The ulcer began to be insensible
1591 XLVI | angel of the Lord seemed to stand before Licinius while he
1592 XLIX | against the wall, and his eyes started out of their sockets. And
1593 XIX | there a pillar, with the statue of Jupiter, was placed.
1594 IX | corresponded with his manners. Of stature tall, full of flesh, and
1595 XXIX | and after having made some stay in those quarters, he went
1596 XLIV | length Constantine, with steady courage and a mind prepared
1597 XXXIII | generated in his body. The stench was so foul as to pervade
1598 IX | him, he cried out, with a stern look and terrible voice, "
1599 XXIV | violence, lest he should stir up civil wars against himself,
1600 XLIX | poison, repelled by his full stomach, could not immediately operate,
1601 XXX | all aghast,~"Stood like a stone, silent and motionless;"~
1602 XL | the populace should have stoned him. This tragedy was acted
1603 V | commanded the Roman to stoop and present his back; then,
1604 | stop
1605 VII | capital punishment were straightway prepared against the proprietor;
1606 XXVI | news, was disturbed at the strangeness of the event, but not much
1607 XXX | at his own choice, and he strangled himself. Thus that mightiest
1608 XXXIII | received a hurt, and the blood streamed more abundantly than before.
1609 V | confidence in their own strength. Now since God so punished
1610 XLVI | our prayers; to Thee we stretch forth our arms. Hear, Holy
1611 XIX | sight of all, Galerius, stretching back his hand, put Constantine
1612 XVIII | comeliness of his figure, his strict attention to all military
1613 XI | purpose. But although he could struggle no longer against his friends,
1614 XVIII | the Danube, perpetually struggling against barbarous nations,
1615 XVIII | dispositions, and so proud and stubborn withal, that he would never
1616 XXXIV | commonweal, we have hitherto studied to reduce all things to
1617 XVII | known again. The fit of stupor, resembling death, happened
1618 XIII | or degree, they should be subjected to tortures, and that every
1619 XXXII | obstinacy of Daia, abolished the subordinate title of Caesar, gave to
1620 VIII | were presently charged, by suborned evidences, as guilty of
1621 XLIII | and those sentiments still subsisted, notwithstanding the treaty
1622 XXVII | deprived of all means of subsistence in a mined country. So the
1623 XXIV | he did not set himself to subvert or expel Constantius, but
1624 IX | sovereignty--occupied himself in subverting the commonweal, there was
1625 VI | ought to have deterred succeeding tyrants; nevertheless they
1626 XLVIII | success to us, and in our successes make the commonweal happy.
1627 XXIX | and that he might the more successfully deceive, he laid aside the
1628 XVI | all into the hands of his successor Priscillian, you displayed
1629 LII | afterwards transferred to their successors? The Lord has blotted them
1630 XXIX | that a few soldiers would suffice to subdue those barbarians.
1631 XXVII | brought with him an army sufficient to invest the walls. Probably,
1632 XIII | freedom, nor have right of suffrage. A certain person tore down
1633 XVIII | consent; but whom else do you suggest?"--"Him," said Galerius,
1634 XIII | tortures, and that every suit at law should be received
1635 XVII | litter. Then, at the close of summer, he made a circuit along
1636 XIX | there is an eminence, on the summit of which Galerius formerly
1637 XIX | other legions, who had been summoned to the solemnity, fixed
1638 VII | avarice, would never allow the sums of money in his treasury
1639 XXIII | put on board vessels, and sunk in the sea. So merciful
1640 XXI | complacency: nor did he ever sup without being spectator
1641 XIV | magistrates, and all who had superintendency in the imperial palace,
1642 XXXVI | province he established a superintendent priest, one of chief eminence
1643 XV | from the injunctions of his superiors, permitted the demolition
1644 VII | labourers and artificers, and supplying carriages and whatever else
1645 XXXI | have made that grievance supportable; but it was necessary for
1646 V | one God, who governs and supports all things?~
1647 II | extravagant imagination to suppose that, having been conveyed
1648 LII | corrupt the truth, either by suppressing their offences against God,
1649 XVIII | the opinion of mankind, to surpass the mild virtues of his
1650 XLVI | looked for the voluntary surrender of the armies of Licinius;
1651 VI | had taken up groundless suspicions against him. Examples of
1652 XXXI | and nought left for the sustenance of the husbandman! That
1653 XXXIII | issued forth an innumerable swarm: nevertheless the prolific
1654 XXXIII | prolific disease had hatched swarms much more abundant to prey
1655 IX | tall, full of flesh, and swollen to a horrible bulk of corpulency;
1656 XLVII | could neither draw their swords nor yet throw their javelins.
1657 XXV | that, by receiving that symbol, he might acknowledge Constantine
1658 X | for divination. At length Tages, the chief of the soothsayers,
1659 IX | his manners. Of stature tall, full of flesh, and swollen
1660 XXVIII | old man, and, like another Tarquin the Proud, he was driven
1661 XLIX | and Daia at length fled to Tarsus. There, being hard pressed
1662 XLIX | occupied the passes of mount Taurus; and there, by erecting
1663 XXXI | threshing-floor without a tax-gatherer, no vintage without a watch,
1664 XXVI | even to the Roman people. Tax-gatherers therefore were appointed
1665 I | furious whirlwind and black tempest, the heavens are now become
1666 XV | dispersed through all the temples, sought to compel every
1667 XIX | Daia, lately taken from the tending of cattle in forests to
1668 II | Fufius Geminus, and on the tenth of the kalends of April,
1669 XII | preference to all others, to terminate, as it were, the Christian
1670 XII | the festival of the god Terminus, celebrated on the sevens
1671 IX | out, with a stern look and terrible voice, "How long am I to
1672 XVIII | the alarm of civil wars terrified the old man into compliance;
1673 IX | looks, he made himself a terror to all that came near him.
1674 II | institutions of the New Testament; and this having been accomplished,
1675 XIII | questions of wrong, adultery, or theft; and, finally, that they
1676 XLIV | title of the Greatest a theme of abuse and raillery.~
1677 LI | at length discovered in Thessalonica, was apprehended, together
1678 XVII | yet, rather than continue thirteen days longer in Rome, he
1679 XLV | while he himself had scarce thirty thousand; for his soldiers
1680 XXXII | Caesar, in expectation of his thorough obsequiousness, forgot the
1681 VI | earth at Caenophrurium in Thrace, assassinated by his familiar
1682 XXVI | allow an exemption from that thraldom even to the Roman people.
1683 XXXI | from the same persons. No threshing-floor without a tax-gatherer,
1684 XLVI | the ceremony having been thrice performed, the soldiers
1685 XLVII | draw their swords nor yet throw their javelins. Daia went
1686 XLIV | driven headlong into the Tiber. This destructive war being
1687 II | latter days of the Emperor Tiberius, in the consulship of Ruberius
1688 XL | was ordered to the torture till he should speak as he had
1689 VII | avarice partly, and partly by timid counsels, overturned the
1690 XLVIII | and perceive at the same tithe that the open and free exercise
1691 XXXI | those who had earned it by toil, was grievous: the hope,
1692 X | time to time, afforded no tokens for divination. At length
1693 XXXVIII| the guilt overpowers my tongue, and makes it unequal to
1694 XVI | hundred mouths, a hundred tongues,~A voice of brass, and adamantine
1695 XLIV | turned round thus at the top, being the cipher of CHRIST.
1696 XXI | torn from the bones; then torches, lighted and put out again,
1697 XIV | tribunal, and saw innocent men tormented by fire to make discovery.
1698 I | tremendous ruin; and the tormentors of just men have poured
1699 XL | been instructed, while the torturers by blows prevented the women
1700 XXII | which he had learned in torturing the Christians, became habitual,
1701 XLII | maladies, he resolved to die. Tossing to and fro, with his soul
1702 XLIX | by erecting parapets and towers, attempted to stop the march
1703 VII | and children, as from a town taken by enemies; and when
1704 III | remains of his statues, or traces of the inscriptions put
1705 XLII | emperor had ever seen, and, trader the double load of vexation
1706 XL | should have stoned him. This tragedy was acted at Nicaea. The
1707 II | Matthias, in the room of the traitor Judas, and afterwards Paul.
1708 XIX | Caesar, obtained authority to trample under foot and oppress the
1709 XXII | who possessed them were trampled upon and execrated, as if
1710 XXXVIII| character, and in which he transcended all former emperors, was
1711 LII | Maximian, and afterwards transferred to their successors? The
1712 II | Enoch and Elias have been translated into some remote place that
1713 XLVIII | properly distributed them, transported his army into Bithynia,
1714 XXIX | wickedness, and intending by treacherous devices to overreach Constantine,
1715 XLV | surrendered, not through treachery, but because they were too
1716 XXXVIII| adulterer, chastity had been treason. Some men there were, who,
1717 X | interrupted. The soothsayers trembled, unable to investigate the
1718 I | temple, are fallen with more tremendous ruin; and the tormentors
1719 XVI | with one whom, by repeated trials, he had found unconquerable;
1720 XII | together with chief commanders, tribunes, and officers of the treasury,
1721 XXIII | discoveries; and thus the tributes were redoubled, not because
1722 XVIII | public affairs!"--"I have tried them."--"Then do you look
1723 VII | was shed for the veriest trifles; men were afraid to expose
1724 XVI | and by nine victories you triumphed, over this world and its
1725 LII | noxious wild beasts who had trod down its pastures, and destroyed
1726 XLVII | two armies drew nigh; the trumpets ave the signal; the military
1727 XXIII | liberty to exist; yet full trust was not reposed on the same
1728 XXIII | their fathers, the most trusty slaves compelled by pain
1729 LII | persecutors should corrupt the truth, either by suppressing their
1730 XII | all was rapine, confusion, tumult. That church, situated on
1731 XXVI | the acquiescence of the tumultuary populace, clothed Maxentius
1732 XXXIX | for another, whom in her turn he would also cast off;
1733 II | certain miracles, and, by turning many to the true religion,
1734 XVIII | that habitual drunkard, who turns night into day, and day
1735 XVII | solemnity was performed on the twelfth of the kalends of December;
1736 XLII | the ground. So he, who for twenty years was the most prosperous
1737 II | commanded them; and during twenty-five years, and until the beginning
1738 XXIX | took flight, as he had done twice before, and returned into
1739 XVI | all the vain terrors of tyrannical authority. Against you neither
1740 XLVIII | performed peremptorily and unambiguously; and we will also, that
1741 VIII | a corresponding will and unanimity in judgment. Herein alone
1742 XVIII | so long a reign he must unavoidably have made many enemies.
1743 XXIX | him, was overpowered at unawares, and the soldiers returned
1744 XXIX | opposite side having been unbarred, the besiegers were admitted
1745 XXIX | acted in a way so peculiarly unbecoming him. But Maximian from the
1746 VII | cultivated, or a house of uncommon elegance, a false accusation
1747 XLVIII | Christians is ample and unconditional; and perceive at the same
1748 XVI | repeated trials, he had found unconquerable; and he abstained from challenging
1749 XXVIII | being denied the exercise of uncontrolled sovereignty, and envied
1750 VII | pulled down, or altered, to undergo perhaps a future demolition.
1751 XLIX | greedily devoured it. Having undergone various and excruciating
1752 XLVIII | your charge, that you might understand that the indulgence which
1753 XXXI | things, O tyrant void of understanding, if you carry off the whole
1754 XXXIII | difficulty. The physicians had to undertake their operations anew, and
1755 IV | once to fall; for, having undertaken an expedition against the
1756 XXX | slightly guarded. Fausta undertook to do whatever he asked,
1757 L | to be drowned. So, by the unerring and just judgment of God,
1758 XXXIX | lastly, that it was indecent, unexampled, and unlawful for a woman
1759 XVI | stretched out to you; an unfading garland, which, although
1760 XVIII | made answer, that it was unfit for one who had held a rank,
1761 I | has brought to an end the united devices of the wicked, and
1762 XXXIX | indecent, unexampled, and unlawful for a woman of her title
1763 XIX | minds at the strange and unlooked-for event. Diocletian took off
1764 X | as if the former had been unpropitious; but the victims, slain
1765 XVIII | Herculius had served him with unshaken fidelity. "Who is that you
1766 XVIII | saw that little but an unsubstantial name would accrue to him
1767 XLI | This messenger, equally unsuccessful in his negotiation as the
1768 XXIX | arms. Maximian advised the unsuspecting Constantine not to lead
1769 XXVI | that purple of which he had unwillingly divested himself. Meanwhile
1770 XXV | although with the utmost unwillingness, accepted the portrait,
1771 XXXVIII| lest any part should be unworthy of the bed of the emperor.
1772 XXX | motionless;"~while Constantine upbraided him for his impiety and
1773 XL | the tribunal, not of an upright judge, but of a robber.
1774 XIV | the emperor. That he might urge him to excess of cruelty
1775 XIV | with Diocletian, constantly urging him, and never allowing
1776 XXII | either exiled or slain. Useful letters came to be viewed
1777 XII | committed to the flames; the utensils and furniture of the church
1778 II | being to come from the uttermostboundaries of the earth;"~as if he
1779 V | V.~And presently Valerian
1780 XXXI | required, under pain of being variously tortured, instantly to pay,
1781 XXXIII | over, broke out again; a vein burst, and the blood flowed
1782 XXVI | was compelled to open his veins, and in that gentle manner
1783 VII | much blood was shed for the veriest trifles; men were afraid
1784 V | the flesh, was dyed with vermilion, and placed in the temple
1785 II | they apply the Sibylline verses concerning ~"The fugitive,
1786 XXIII | assembled, put on board vessels, and sunk in the sea. So
1787 XL | them, who had a daughter a Vestal virgin at Rome, maintained
1788 XVIII | should be two of higher rank vested with supreme power, and
1789 XIX | this old emperor, like a veteran soldier freed from military
1790 XLII | trader the double load of vexation of spirit and bodily maladies,
1791 XXXII | title of Augustus. Galerius, vexed and grieved at this, commanded
1792 VI | VI.~Aurelian might have recollected
1793 XLVII | either surrendered to the victor or fled; for now that the
1794 XXII | Useful letters came to be viewed in the same light as magical
1795 XL | innocent. The equitable and vigilant magistrate conducted him
1796 XIX | the empire into hands more vigorous and able, and at the same
1797 VII | VII.~While Diocletian, that
1798 VIII | VIII.~What was the character
1799 V | remainder of his days in the vilest condition of slavery: for
1800 XXIII | of ground was measured, vines and fruit-trees numbered,
1801 XXXI | without a tax-gatherer, no vintage without a watch, and nought
1802 XL | had a daughter a Vestal virgin at Rome, maintained an intercourse
1803 XVIII | mankind, to surpass the mild virtues of his father."--"Be it
1804 XVIII | all military duties, his virtuous demeanour and singular affability,
1805 XXXI | with those things, O tyrant void of understanding, if you
1806 XXVI | about to be delivered up, he voluntarily surrendered himself, and
1807 XLVI | the war. He looked for the voluntary surrender of the armies
1808 XLVIII | due to any religion or its votaries. Moreover, with respect
1809 XI | exceedingly superstitious, was a votary of the gods of the mountains.
1810 XLVIII | ourselves, might continue to vouchsafe His favour and beneficence
1811 XI | at Miletus, whose answer wa such as might be expected
1812 XL | to die. Then there arose wailing and lamentation, not only
1813 XVII | appeared in public, but so wan, his illness having lasted
1814 LI | who for fifteen months had wandered under a mean garb from province
1815 XXXIX | took in the course of her wanderings; and, to complete all, he
1816 XXIII | administration no man should want! And thus, while he took
1817 XXIX | and what it was that he wanted, and why he had acted in
1818 XXXVII | wonted pittance in corn, and wantonly threw it away. Meanwhile
1819 XXXVII | individual were shut, anti all warehouses sealed up, and taxes, not
1820 LII | that peace which, after a warfare of ten years, He has bestowed
1821 XXXIII | of the disease, that the warmth might draw out those minute
1822 XXXI | tax-gatherer, no vintage without a watch, and nought left for the
1823 XII | Galerius stood, as if on a watch-tower, disputing long whether
1824 IX | provinces, and anxiously watched the event. It is a custom
1825 XXI | exemption. Meanwhile cold water was continually poured on
1826 XXVII | remaining soldiers begun to waver, when Galerius, dreading
1827 XLV | but because they were too weak to make a longer resistance.
1828 XXXIX | engage a second time in wedlock. This bold answer having
1829 XVII | in the palace sorrow, and weeping, and lamentation, and the
1830 XVIII | example of Nerva, who laid the weight of empire on Trajan. But
1831 LII | things on the authority of well-informed persons; and I thought it
1832 V | considerable time under the well-merited insults of his conqueror;
1833 XIV | both of the princes had well-nigh been burnt alive in their
1834 XLVIII | Christians. For it befits the well-ordered state and the tranquillity
1835 XLII | He sighed, groaned, and wept often, and incessantly threw
1836 | whence
1837 | whereas
1838 XXXIV | herein to demean themselves.~"Wherefore it will be the duty of the
1839 | wherever
1840 | whoever
1841 XXI | laid on a funeral pile, and wholly burnt; their bones were
1842 XXIX | Gaul, with a heart full of wickedness, and intending by treacherous
1843 XXVII | plunder and destroy far and wide, that, if there were any
1844 XXXIV | different societies many men of widely different persuasions. "
1845 XXXIII | It diffused itself the wider the more the corrupted flesh
1846 XXXIV | right opinions. For such wilfulness and folly had, we know not
1847 XLIII | in public view. Maxentius willingly embraced this, as if it
1848 I | devices of the wicked, and wiped off the tears from the faces
1849 XXIV | hands, and then died, as his wish had long been, in peace
1850 I | now become calm, and the wished-for light has shone forth; and
1851 XVIII | and so proud and stubborn withal, that he would never pay
1852 XXXVIII| parents were obliged to withdraw. Matrons of quality and
1853 XXXIII | masters of the healing art withdrew."~Then famous physicians
1854 VII | all things, he could not withhold his insults, not even against
1855 XXXII | conferred on him, and impiously withstood the requests and will of
1856 XV | seized, without evidence by witnesses or confession, condemned,
1857 XVI | no enemy can dislodge, or wolf snatch, from the heavenly
1858 LII | partly laid waste by ravenous wolves, and partly scattered abroad,
1859 XI | against the Christians, and by woman-like complaints instigated her
1860 XIX | conspicuous place. All men wondered who he could be, and from
1861 VII | cultivated grounds became woodland, and universal dismay prevailed.
1862 II | for the preaching of His word and doctrine, and regulated
1863 XXII | or to send criminals to work in the mines; but to burn,
1864 VII | here a mint, and there a workhouse for making implements of
1865 XXI | station were dragged into workhouses; and when any man was to
1866 VII | else was requisite to the works which he projected. Here
1867 XLII | receiving nourishment, and, worn out with anguish of mind,
1868 XXXVI | erecting churches, or from worshipping God either publicly or in
1869 XVIII | young man of very great worth, and well meriting the high
1870 VIII | prince unlike the others, and worthy to have had the sole government
1871 XXXIII | length they cicatrized the wound. In consequence of some
1872 XXXIII | the pain, ~So roars the wounded bull."~They applied warm
1873 II | which hitherto had been wrapped up in obscurity, ordained
1874 VI | cruelty irritated the divine wrath. He was not, however, permitted
1875 VIII | incontinency of that pestilent wretch, not only in debauching
1876 XXIII | victorious enemies, and the wretched state of captives. Each
1877 XXIII | and whom their misery and wretchedness secured from ill-treatment.
1878 XXIII | death a multitude of real wretches, in violation of every law
1879 LII | proper to commit them to writing exactly as they happened,
1880 XIII | plaintiffs in questions of wrong, adultery, or theft; and,
1881 VII | exacting them, intolerable wrongs. Whatever was laid on for
1882 II | God committed unto him, wrought certain miracles, and, by
1883 XI | XI.~The mother of Galerius,
1884 XII | XII.~A fit and auspicious day
1885 XIII | XIII.~Next day an edict was published,
1886 XIV | XIV.~But Galerius, not satisfied
1887 XIX | XIX.~Matters having been thus
1888 XL | XL.~There was a certain matron
1889 XLI | XLI.~But the empress, an exile
1890 XLII | XLII.~At this time, by command
1891 XLIII | XLIII.~Of the adversaries of God
1892 XLIV | XLIV.~And now a civil war broke
1893 XLIX | XLIX.~While Licinius pursued
1894 XLV | XLV.~Constantine having settled
1895 XLVI | XLVI.~The armies thus approaching
1896 XLVII | XLVII.~So the two armies drew
1897 XLVIII | XLVIII.~Not many days after the
1898 XV | XV.~And now Diocletian raged,
1899 XVI | XVI.~Thus was all the earth
1900 XVII | XVII.~The wicked plan having
1901 XVIII | XVIII.~Within a few days Galerius
1902 XX | XX.~Galerius having effected
1903 XXI | XXI.~Having thus attained to
1904 XXII | XXII.~And now that cruelty, which
1905 XXIII | XXIII.~But that which gave rise
1906 XXIV | XXIV.~Already the judgment of
1907 XXIX | XXIX.~Then Maximian returned
1908 XXV | XXV.~Some few days after, the
1909 XXVI | XXVI.~Things seemed to be arranged
1910 XXVII | XXVII.~But Maximian, who knew
1911 XXVIII | XXVIII.~After the flight of Galerius,
1912 XXX | XXX.~Maximian, having thus forfeited
1913 XXXI | XXXI.~From Maximian, God, the
1914 XXXII | XXXII.~Maximin Daia was incensed
1915 XXXIII | XXXIII.~And now, when Galerius
1916 XXXIV | XXXIV.~"Amongst our other regulations
1917 XXXIX | XXXIX.~Now Daia, in gratifying
1918 XXXV | XXXV.~This edict was promulgated
1919 XXXVI | XXXVI.~Daia, on receiving this
1920 XXXVII | XXXVII.~While occupied in this
1921 XXXVIII| XXXVIII.~But that which distinguished
1922 XVI | beheld you a conqueror, yoking in your chariot not white
1923 XXVII | that he might give his younger daughter Fausta in marriage