114, 115.

The stately buildings of Constantinople, &c., may be quoted as a lasting and unexceptionable proof of the profuseness of their founder.] [Footnote 5: The impartial Ammianus deserves all our confidence.
Proximorum fauces aperuit primus omnium Constantinus.

L.xvi.c.

8.
Eusebius himself confesses the abuse, (Vit.Constantin.l.iv.c.

29, 54;) and some of the Imperial laws feebly point out the remedy.