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- Title Page
- Chap. I. The Lord has heard those supplications which you, my best beloved Donatus
- Chap. II. In the latter days of the Emperor Tiberius, in the consulship of Ruberius Geminus and
- Chap. III. After an interval of some years from the death of Nero
- Chap. IV. This long peace, however, was afterwards interrupted.
- Chap. V. And presently Valerian also, in a mood alike frantic
- Chap. VI. Aurelian might have recollected the fate of the captived emperor
- Chap. VII. While Diocletian, that author of ill, and deviser of misery
- Chap. VIII. What was the character of his brother in empire
- Chap. IX. But the other Maximian Galerius, chosen by Diocletian for his son-in-law
- Chap. X. Diocletian, as being of a timorous disposition, was a searcher into futurity
- Chap. XI. The mother of Galerius, a woman exceedingly superstitious, was a votary of the gods of
- Chap. XII. A fit and auspicious day was sought out for the accomplishment of this undertaking
- Chap. XIII. Next day an edict was published, depriving the Christians of all honours and dignities
- Chap. XIV. But Galerius, not satisfied with the tenor of the edict
- Chap. XV. And now Diocletian raged, not only against his own domestics
- Chap. XVI. Thus was all the earth afflicted; and from east to west
- Chap. XVII. The wicked plan having been carried into execution, Diocletian
- Chap. XVIII. Within a few days Galerius Cæsar arrived, not to congratulate his father-in-law on the re-establishment
- Chap. XIX. Matters having been thus concerted, Diocletian and Galerius went in procession to publish the nomination
- Chap. XX. Galerius having effected the expulsion of the two old men
- Chap. XXI. Having thus attained to the highest power, he bent his mind to afflict that empire
- Chap. XXII. And now that cruelty, which he had learned in torturing the Christians
- Chap. XXIII. But that which gave rise to public and universal calamity
- Chap. XXIV. Already the judgment of God approached him, and that season ensued in which his fortunes
- Chap. XXV. Some few days after, the portrait of Constantine, adorned with laurels
- Chap. XXVI. Things seemed to be arranged in some measure to the satisfaction of Galerius
- Chap. XXVII. But Maximian, who knew the outrageous temper of Galerius
- Chap. XXVIII. After the flight of Galerius, Maximian, having returned from Gaul
- Chap. XXIX. Then Maximian returned into Gaul; and after having made some stay in those quarters
- Chap. XXX. Maximian, having thus forfeited the respect due to an emperor and a father-in-law
- Chap. XXXI. From Maximian, God, the avenger of religion and of His people
- Chap. XXXII. Maximin Daia was incensed at the nomination of Licinius to the dignity of emperor
- Chap. XXXIII. And now, when Galerius was in the eighteenth year of his reign
- Chap. XXXIV. |Amongst our other regulations for the permanent advantage of the commonweal
- Chap. XXXV. This edict was promulgated at Nicomedia on the day preceding the kalends of May
- Chap. XXXVI. Daia, on receiving this news, hasted with relays of horses from the East
- Chap. XXXVII. While occupied in this plan, he received letters from Constantine which deterred him from proceeding
- Chap. XXXVIII. But that which distinguished his character, and in which he transcended all former emperors
- Chap. XXXIX. Now Daia, in gratifying his libidinous desires, made his own will the standard of right
- Chap. XL. There was a certain matron of high rank who already had grandchildren by more than
- Chap. XLI. But the empress, an exile in some desert region of Syria
- Chap. XLII. At this time, by command of Constantine, the statues of Maximian Herculius were thrown down
- Chap. XLIII. Of the adversaries of God there still remained one
- Chap. XLIV. And now a civil war broke out between Constantine and Maxentius.
- Chap. XLV. Constantine having settled all things at Rome, went to Milan about the beginning of winter.
- Chap. XLVI. The armies thus approaching each other, seemed on the eve of a battle.
- Chap. XLVII. So the two armies drew nigh; the trumpets gave the signal
- Chap. XLVIII. Not many days after the victory, Licinius, having received part of the soldiers of Daia
- Chap. XLIX. While Licinius pursued with his army, the fugitive tyrant retreated
- Chap. L. Thus did God subdue all those who persecuted His name
- Chap. LI. Valeria, too, who for fifteen months had wandered under a mean garb from province to
- Chap. LII. I relate all those things on the authority of well-informed persons
- Elucidation
- Fragments of Lactantius
- The Phoenix
- A Poem on the Passion of the Lord
- General Note.