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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVIII: Character Of Constantine And His Sons
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11) uses the general expression of peremptum Codinus (p.

34) beheads the young prince; but Sidonius Apollinaris (Epistol.v.

8,) for the sake perhaps of an antithesis to Fausta's warm bath, chooses to administer a draught of cold poison.] [Footnote 18: Sororis filium, commodae indolis juvenem.

Eutropius, x.

6 May I not be permitted to conjecture that Crispus had married Helena the daughter of the emperor Licinius, and that on the happy delivery of the princess, in the year 322, a general pardon was granted by Constantine?
See Ducange, Fam.Byzant.p.47, and the law (l.ix.tit.


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