[6] A mind thus relaxed by prosperity and indulgence, was incapable of rising to that magnanimity which disdains suspicion, and dares to forgive.

The deaths of Maximian and Licinius may perhaps be justified by the maxims of policy, as they are taught in the schools of tyrants; but an impartial narrative of the executions, or rather murders, which sullied the declining age of Constantine, will suggest to our most candid thoughts the idea of a prince who could sacrifice without reluctance the laws of justice, and the feelings of nature, to the dictates either of his passions or of his interest.
[Footnote 3: See Eutropius, x.6.In primo Imperii tempore optimis principibus, ultimo mediis comparandus.

From the ancient Greek version of Poeanius, (edit.Havercamp.p.

697,) I am inclined to suspect that Eutropius had originally written vix mediis; and that the offensive monosyllable was dropped by the wilful inadvertency of transcribers.
Aurelius Victor expresses the general opinion by a vulgar and indeed obscure proverb.

Trachala decem annis praestantissimds; duodecim sequentibus latro; decem novissimis pupillus ob immouicas profusiones.] [Footnote 4: Julian, Orat.i.p.8, in a flattering discourse pronounced before the son of Constantine; and Caesares, p.336.Zosimus, p.