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Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died

Lactantius

Chapter 41

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Author: Lactantius

Chap. XLI.

But the empress, an exile in some desert

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region

of

Syria

,

secretly

informed

her

father

Diocletian

of

the

calamity

that

had

befallen

her

.

He

despatched

messengers

to

Daia

,

requesting

that

his

daughter

might

be

sent

to

him

.

He

could

not

prevail

.

Again

and

again

he

entreated

;

yet

she

was

not

sent

.

At

length

he

employed

a

relation

of

his

,

a

military

man

high

in

power

and

authority

,

to

implore

Daia

by

the

remembrance

of

past

favours

.

This

messenger

,

equally

unsuccessful

in

his

negotiation

as

the

others

,

reported

to

Diocletian

that

his

prayers

were

vain

.