Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VII: Lactantius: Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died

 

Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died. 1957  1958

Addressed to Donatus.

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Footnotes

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[Not “the persecutors,” but only some of them. This treatise is, in fact, a most precious relic of antiquity, and a striking narrative of the events which led to the “conversion of the Empire,” so called. Its historical character is noted by Gibbon, D. and F., vol. ii. 20, n. 40.]