Beugnot agrees much with Gibbon, and I should conceive, with regard to the West, is clearly right." I beg the reader to observe, that I have _not_ represented the numerical strength of the Christians in Constantine's army to be great.

Why my opponent should ridicule my use of the phrase _Christian regiments_, I am too dull to understand.

("Who would not think," says he, "that it was one of Constantine's _aide-de-camps_ that was speaking ?") It may be that I am wrong in using the plural noun, and that there was only _one_ such regiment,--that which carried the Labarum, or standard of the cross (Gibbon, ch.

20), to which so much efficacy was attributed in the war against Licinius.

I have no time at present, nor any need for further inquiries on such matters.