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Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died

Lactantius

Chapter 35

About this work

Author: Lactantius

Chap. XXXV.

This edict was promulgated at Nicomedia on the day

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preceding

the

kalends

of

May

,

in

the

eighth

consulship

of

Galerius

,

and

the

second

of

Maximin

Daia

.

Then

the

prison

-

gates

having

been

thrown

open

,

you

,

my

best

beloved

Donatus

,

together

with

the

other

confessors

for

the

faith

,

were

set

at

liberty

from

a

jail

,

which

had

been

your

residence

for

six

years

.

Galerius

,

however

,

did

not

,

by

publication

of

this

edict

,

obtain

the

divine

forgiveness

.

In

a

few

days

after

he

was

consumed

by

the

horrible

disease

that

had

brought

on

an

universal

putrefaction

.

Dying

,

he

recommended

his

wife

and

son

to

Licinius

,

and

delivered

them

over

into

his

hands

.

This

event

was

known

at

Nicomedia

before

the

end

of

the

month

.

His

vicennial

anniversary

was

to

have

been

celebrated

on

the

ensuing

kalends

of

March

.

Notes

1
30th of April.
2
[See p. 301, supra, and p. 316, infra.]
3
May.
4
1st of March following.