Eusebius Book 9, Section 8

9.8.1

VIII. Οἱ μὲν οὗν ἐξ ἔθους ὄμβροι τε καὶ ὑετοὶ χειμαδίου τῆς ὥρας ὑπαρχούσης τὴν ἐπὶ γῆς ἀνεῖχον αυνήθη φοράν, λιμὸς δ᾿ ἀδόκητος ἐπισκήπτει καὶ λοιμὸς ἐπὶ τούτῳ καί τινος ἑτέρου νοσήματος—ἕλκος δὲ ἦν φερωνύμως τοῦ πυρώδους ἕνεκεν ἄνθραξ προσαγορευόμενον—ἐπιφορά, ὃ καὶ καθ᾿ ὅλων μὲν ἕρπον τῶν σωμάτων σφαλεροὺς ἐνεποίει τοῖς πεπονθόσι κινδύνους, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ κατὰ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν διαφερόντως ἐπὶ πλεῖστον γινόμενον μυρίους ὂσους ἄνδρας ἅμα γυναιξὶν καὶ παισὶν πηροὺς ἀπειργάζετο.

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VIII. The customary rains, indeed, and showers of the then prevailing winter season were withholding their usual downpour upon the earth, and an unexpected famine visited us, and on top of this a plague and an outbreak of another kind of disease. This later was an ulcer, which on account of its fiery character was called an anthrax. Spreading as it did over the entire body, it used to endanger greatly its victims; but it was the eyes that it marked out for special attack, and so it was the means of blinding numbers of men as well as women and children.

9.8.2

Τούτοις προσεπανίσταται τῷ τυράννῳ ὁ πρὸς Αρμενίους πόλεμος, ἄνδρας ἐξ ἀρχαίου φίλους τε καὶ συμμάχους ῾Ρωμαίων, οὓς καὶ αὐτοὺς Χριστιανοὺς καὶ τὴν εἰς τὸ θεῖον εὐσέβειαν διὰ σπουδῆς ποιουμένους ὁ θεομισὴς εἰδώλοις θύειν καὶ δαίμοσιν ἐπαναγκάσαι πεπειραμένος, ἐχθροὺς ἀντὶ φίλων καὶ πολεμίους ἀντὶ συμμάχων κατεστήσατο.

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In addition to this, the tyrant had the further trouble of the war against the Armenians, men who from ancient times had been friends and allies of the Romans; but as they were Christians and exceedingly earnest in their piety toward the Deity, this hater of God, by attempting to compel them to sacrifice to idols and demons, made of them foes instead of friends, and enemies instead of allies.

9.8.3

Ἀθρόως δὴ ταῦτα πάντα ὑφ᾿ ἕνα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν συρρεύσαντα καιρόν, τῆς τοῦ τυράννου θρασύτητος τὴν κατὰ τοῦ θείου μεγαλαυχίαν διήλεγξεν, ὅτι δὴ τῆς περὶ τὰ εἴδωλα αὐτοῦ σπουδῆς καὶ τῆς καθ’ ἡμῶν ἕνεκα πολιορκίας μὴ λιμὸν μηδὲ λοιμὸν μηδὲ μὴν πόλεμον ἐπὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ συμβῆναι καιρῶν ἐθρασύνετο. ταῦτα δ’ οὗν ὁμοῦ καὶ κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ ἐπελθόντα, καὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ καταστροφῆς περιειλήφει τὰ προοίμια. αὐτὸς μὲν οὖν περὶ τὸν πρὸς Ἀρ’. μενίους πόλεμον ἅμα τοῖς αὐτοῦ στρατοπέδοις κατεπονεῖτο, τοὺς δὲ λοιποὺς τῶν τὰς ὑπ’ αὐτὸν πόλεις οἰκούντων δεινῶς ὁ λιμός τε ἅμα καὶ ὁ λοιμὸς κατετρυχέτην, ὡς ἑνὸς μέτρου πυρῶν δισχιλίας καὶ πεντακοσίας Ἀττικὰς ἀντικαταλλάττεσθαι. μυρίοι μὲν οὖν ἐτύγχανον οἱ κατὰ πόλεις θνῇσκοντες, πλείους δὲ τούτων οἱ κατ’ ἀγρούς τε καὶ κώμας, ὡς ἤδη καὶ τὰς πάλαι τῶν ἀγροίκων πολυάνδρους ἀπογραφὰς μικροῦ δεῖν παντελῆ παθεῖν ἐξάλειψιν, ἀθρόως ἀθρόως ἁπάντων ἐνδείᾳ τροφῆς καὶ λοιμώδει νόσῳ διεφθαρμένων. τινὲς μὲν οὖν τὰ ἑαυτῶν φίλτατα βραχυτάτης τροφῆς τοῖς εὐπορωτέροις ἀπεμπολᾶν ἠξίουν, ἄλλοι δὲ τὰς κτήσεις κατὰ βραχὺ διαπιπράσκοντες εἰς ἐσχάτην ἐνδείας ἀπορίαν ἤλαυνον, ἤδη δέ τινες σμικρὰ χόρτου διαμασώμενοι σπαράγματα καί τινας ἀνέδην φθοροποιοὺς ἐσθίοντες πόας, τὴν τῶν σωμάτων ἕξιν λυμαινόμενοι διώλλυντο. καὶ γυναίων δὲ τῶν κατὰ πόλεις εὐγενίδων τινὲς εἰς ἀναίσχυντον ἀνάγκην πρὸς τῆς ἀπορίας ἐλαθεῖσαι, μεταιτεῖν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγορῶν προεληΛύθεσαν, τῆς πάλαι ἐλευθερίου τροφῆς ὑπόδειγμα διὰ τῆς περὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αἰδοῦς καὶ τῆς ἀμφὶ τὴν περιβολὴν κοσμιότητος ὑποφαίνουσαι. καὶ οἳ μὲν ἀπεσκληκότες ὥσπερ εἴδωλα νεκρὰ ὧδε κἀκεῖσε ψυχορραγοῦντες ἐνσειόμενοί τε καὶ περιολισθαίνοντες ὑπ’ ἀδυναμίας τοῦ στῆναι κατέπιπτον ἐν μέσαις τε πλατείαις πρηνεῖς ἡπλωμένοι ὀρέξαι σφίσιν μικρὸν τρύφος ἄρτου κατηντιβόλουν καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν πρὸς ἐσχάαις ἔχοντες ἀναπνοαῖς πεινῆν ἐπεβόων, πρὸς μόνην ταύτην τὴν ὀδυνηροτάτην φωνὴν εὐσθενεῖς καθιστάμενοι· οἵ δὲ τὴν πληθὺν τῶν αἰτούντων καταπληττόμενοι, δάοι τῶν εὐπορωτέρων ἐδόκουν εἶναι, μετὰ τὸ μυρία παρασχεῖν εἰς ἀπηνῆ λοιπὸν καὶ ἄτεγκτον ἐχώρουν διάθεσιν, τὰ αὐτὰ τοῖς αἰτοῦ· αἷν οὔπω οὔπω καὶ αὐτοὶ πείσεσθαι προσδοκῶντες ὥστ᾿ ἤδη κατὰ μέσας ἀγορὰς καὶ νεκρὰ καὶ γυμνὰ σώματα ἐφ’ ἡμέραις πλείοσιν ἄταφα διερριμμένα θέαν τοῖς ὁρῶσιν οἰκτροτάτην παρέχειν. ἤδη γέ τοι καὶ κυνῶν τινες ἐγίνοντο βορά, δι’ ἢν μάλιστα αἰτίαν οἱ ζῶντες ἐπὶ τὴν κυνοκτονίαν ἐτράποντο δέει τοῦ μὴ λυσσήσαντας ἀνθρωποφαγίαν ἐργάσασθαι. οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ καὶ ὁ λοιμὸς πάντας οἴκους ἐπεβόσκετο, μάλιστα δ’ οὓς ὁ λιμὸς διὰ τὸ εὐπορεῖν τροφῶν οὐχ οἷός ἢν ἑκτρῖψαι· οἱ γοῦν ἐν περιουσίαις, ἄρχοντες καὶ ἡγεμόνες καὶ μυρίοι τῶν ἐν τέλει, ὥσπερ ἐπίτηδες τῆ λοιμώδει νόσῳ πρὸς τοῦ λιμοῦ καταλελειμμένοι, ὀξεῖαν καὶ ὠκυτάτην ὑπέμενον τελευτήν. πάντα δ’ οὖν οἰμωγῶν ἦν ἀνάπλεα, κατὰ πάντας τε στενωποὺς ἀγοράς τε καὶ πλατείας οὐδ’ ἄλλο τι θεωρεῖν ἢ θρήνους μετὰ τῶν συνήθων αὐτοῖς αὐλῶν τε καὶ κτύπων. τοῦτον δὴ τὸν τρόπον δυσὶν ὅπλοις τοῖς προδεδηλωμένοις λοιμοῦ τε ὁμοῦ καὶ λιμοῦ στρατεύσας, ὅλας ὁ θάνατος ἐν ὀλίγῳ γενεὰς ἐνεμήθη, ὡς ὁρᾶν ἤδη δυεῖν καὶ τριῶν σώματα νεκρῶν ὑπὸ μίαν ἐκφορὰν πρὸ· κομιζόμενα.

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The fact that all these things came together all at once, at one and the same time, served to refute utterly the tyrant's insolent boasting against the Deity; for he used to affirm insolently that, on account of his zeal for the idols and his attack upon us, neither famine nor pestilence nor even war took place in his time. These things, then, coming upon him together and at the same time, had constituted the prelude of his overthrow. He himself, therefore, was worn out along with his commanders in the Armenian war, while the rest of the inhabitants of the cities under his rule were so terribly wasted by both the famine and the pestilence, that two thousand five hundred Attic drachmas were given for a single measure of wheat. Countless was the number of those who were dying in the cities, and still larger of those in the country parts and villages, with the result that the registers, which formerly contained the names of a numerous rural population, were now all but entirely wiped out; for one might almost say that the entire population perished all at once through lack of food and through plague. Some, indeed, did not hesitate to barter their dearest possessions for the scantiest supply of food with those better provided; others sold off their goods little by little and were driven to the last extremity of want; and others again, having chewed small wisps of hay and recklessly eaten certain pernicious herbs, injured their bodily health and died. And as for the women, some well-born ladies in the cities were driven by their want to shameless necessity, and went forth to beg in the market-places, displaying a proof of their noble upbringing in their shamefacedness and the decency of their apparel. And some, wasted away like ghosts of the departed, and at the last gasp, stumbled and tottered here and there from inability to stand, and fell down; then, stretched out prone in the midst of the streets, they would beg for a small morsel of bread to be handed them, and with the last breath in their body cry out that they were hungry, finding strength for this most anguished of cries alone. Others, such as were regarded as belonging to the wealthier classes, amazed at the multitude of beggars, after giving countless doles, henceforth adopted a hard and pitiless frame of mind, since they expected that before very long they would be suffering the same misery as the beggars; so that in the midst of market-places and streets dead and naked bodies lay scattered here and there, buried for many days, presenting a most piteous spectacle to those who saw them. Some actually came to be food even for dogs; and chiefly for this reason those who were alive turned to killing dogs, for fear that they might become mad and turn to devouring men. But worst of all, the pestilence also battened on every house, especially those whom the famine could not completely destroy because they were well provided with food. Men, for example, in affluent circumstances, rulers and governors and numbers of officials, who had been left, as it were of set purpose by the famine for the benefit of the plague, endured a sharp and very speedy death. So every place was full of lamentations; in every alley and market-place and street there was nothing to be seen but funeral dirges, together with the flutes and noises that accompany them. Thus waging war with the aforesaid two weapons, pestilence and famine, death devoured whole families in a short time, so that one might actually see the bodies of two or three dead persons carried out for burial in a single funeral train.

9.8.4

τοιαῦτα τῆς Μαξιμίνου μεγαλαυχίας καὶ τῶν κατὰ πόλεις καθ’ ἡμῶν ψηφισμάτων τὰ ἐπίχειρα ἢν, ὅτε καὶ τῆς χριστιανῶν περὶ πάντα απουδῆς τε καὶ εὐσεβείας πᾶαιν ἔθνεσιν διάδηλα κατέστη τὰ τεκμήρια. μόνοι γοῦν ἐν τηλικαύτη κακῶν περιστάσει τὸ συμπαθὲς καὶ φιλάνθρωπον ἔργοις αὐτοῖς ἐπιδεικνύμενοι, διὰ πάσης ἡμέρας οἳ μὲν τῆ τῶν θνῃσκόντων μυριάδες δ’ ἦσαν οἷς οὔτις ἢν ὁ ἐπιμελησόμενος) κηδείᾳ τε καὶ ταφῇ προσεκαρτέρουν, οἳ δὲ τῶν ἀνὰ πᾶσαν τὴν πόλιν πρὸς τοῦ λιμοῦ κατατρυχομένων μένων τὴν πληθὺν ὑπὸ μίαν σύωαξιν ἀθροίζοντες ἄρτους διένεμον τοῖς πᾶσιν, ὡς περιβόητον εἰς πάντας ἀνθρώπους καταστῆναι τὸ πρᾶγμα θεόν τε τῶν Χριστιανῶν δοξάξειν εὐσεβεῖς τε καὶ μόνους θεοσεβεῖς τούτους ἀληθῶς πρὸς αὐτῶν ἐλεγχθέντας τῶν πραγμάτων ὁμολογεῖν.

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Such were the wages received for the proud boasting of Maximin and for the petitions presented by the cities against us; while the proofs of Christians' zeal and piety in every respect were manifest to all the heathen. For example, they alone in such an evil state of affairs gave practical evidence of their sympathy and humanity: all day long some of them would diligently persevere in performing the last offices for the dying and burying them (for there were countless numbers, and no one to look after them); while others would gather together in a single assemblage the multitude of those who all throughout the city were wasted by the famine, and distribute bread to them all, so that their action was on all men's lips, and they glorified the God of the Christians, and, convinced by the deeds themselves, acknowledged that they were truly pious and God-fearing.

9.8.5

Ἐφ' οἷς τοῦτον ἐπ’ ιτελου μένοις τὸν τρόπον ὁ μέγας καὶ οὐράνιος χριστιανῶν ὑπέρμαχος θεὸς τὴν κατὰ πάντων ἀνθρώπων διὰ τῶν δεδηλωμένων ἐπιδειξάμενος ἀπειλὴν καὶ ἀγανάκτησιν ἀνθ’ ὧν εἰς ἡμᾶς ὑπερβαλλόντως ἐνεδείξαντο , τὴν εὐμενῆ καὶ φαιδρὰν τῆς αὐτοῦ περὶ ἡμᾶς προνοίας αὖθις ἡμῖν αὐγὴν ἀπεδίδου, ὡς ἐν βαθεῖ σκότῳ πάρα· δοξότατα φῶς ἡμῖν ἐξ αὐτοῦ καταλάμπων εἰρήνης ἐκφανές τε τοῖς πᾶσιν καθιστὰς θεὸν αὐτὸν τῶν καθ’ ἡμᾶς ἐπίσκοπον διὰ παντὸς γεγονέναι πραγμάτων, μαστίζοντα μὲν καὶ διὰ τῶν περιστάσεων κατὰ καιρὸν ἐπιστρέφοντα τὸν αὐτοῦ λαὸν πάλιν τ’ αὗ μετὰ τὴν αὐτάρκη παιδείαν ἵλεω καὶ εὐμενῆ τοῖς εἰς αὐτὸν τὰς ἐλπίδας ἔχουσιν ἀναφαινόμενον.

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After these things were thus accomplished, God, the great and heavenly Champion of the Christians, when He had displayed His threatening and wrath against all men by the aforesaid means, in return for their exceeding great attacks against us, once again restored to us the bright and kindly radiance of His providential care for us. Most marvellously, as in thick darkness, He caused the light of peace to shine upon us from Himself, and made it manifest to all that God Himself had been watching over our affairs continually, at times scourging and in due season correcting His people by means of misfortunes, and again on the other hand, after sufficient chastisement, showing mercy and goodwill to those who fix their hopes on Him.

9.8.6

ΙΧ. Οὕτω δῆτα Κωνσταντίνου, ὃν βασιλέα ἐκ βασιλέως εὐσεβῆ τε ἐξ εὐσεβεστάτου καὶ πάντα σωφρονεστάτου γεγονέναι προειρήκαμεν, Λικιννίου τε τοῦ μετ’ αὐτόν, συνέσει καὶ εὐσεβείᾳ τετιμημένων, πρὸς τοῦ παμβασιλέως θεοῦ τε τῶν ὅλων καὶ σωτῆρος κατὰ τῶν δυσσεβεστάτων τυράννων ἀνεγηγερμένου πολέμου τε νόμῳ παραταξαμένου, θεοῦ συμμαχοῦντος σωτῆρος δύο θεοφιλῶν κατὰ τῶν δύο δυσσεβεστάτων τυράννων ἀνεγηγερμένων πολέμου τε νόμῳ παραταξαμέων, θεοῦ συμμαχοῦντος αὐτοῖς παραδοξότατα, πίπτει μὲν ἐπὶ Ῥώμης ὑπὸ Κωνσταντῖνον Μαξέντιος, ὁ δ’ ἐπ’ ἀνατολῆς οὐ πολὺν ἐπιζήσας ἐκείνῳ χρόνον, αἰσχίστῳ καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπὸ Λικίννιον οὔπω μανέντα τότε καταστρέφει θανάτῳ.

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9.8.7

Πρότερός γε μὴν ὁ καὶ τιμῇ καὶ τάξει τῆς βασιλείας πρῶτος Κωνσταντῖνος τῶν ἐπὶ Ῥώμης κατατυραννουμένων μένων φειδὼ λαβών, θεὸν τὸν οὐράνιον τόν τε τούτου λόγον, αὐτὸν δὴ τὸν πάντων σωτῆρα Ἰησοῦν χριστόν, σύμμαχον δι’ εὐχῶν ἐπικαλεσάμενος, πρόεισιν πανστρατιᾷ, Ῥωμαίοις τὰ τῆς ἐκ προγόνων ἐλευθερίας προμνώμενος. Μαξεντίου δῆτα μᾶλλον ταῖς κατὰ γοητείαν μηχαναῖς ἢ τῆ τῶν ὑπηκόων ἐπιθαρσοῦντος εὐνοίᾳ, προελθεῖν γε μὴν οὐδ’ ὅσον πυλῶν τοῦ ἄατε ἐπιτολμῶντος, ὁπλιτῶν δ’ ἀνηρίθμῳ πλήθει καὶ στρατοπέδων λόχοις μυρίοις πάντα τόπον καὶ χώραν καὶ πόλιν, ὅση τις ἐν κύκλῳ τῆς Ῥωμαίων καὶ Ἰταλίας ἁπάαης ὑπ᾿ αὐτῷ δεδούλωτο, φραξαμένου, ὁ τῆς ἐκ θεοῦ αυμμαχίας ἀνημμένος βασιλεὺς ἐπιὼν πρώτη καὶ δευτέρᾳ καὶ τρίτῃ τοῦ τυράννου παρατάξει εὖ μάλα τε πάσας ἑλών, πρόεισιν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ὅσον τῆς Ἰταλίας ἤδη τε αὐτῆς ῾Ρώμης ἄγχιστα ἦν· εἶθ᾿ ὡς μὴ τοῦ τυράννου χάριν ῾Ρωμαίοις πολεμεῖν ἀναγκάζοιτο, θεὸς αὐτὸς τισιν ὥσπερ τὸν τύραννον πορρωτάτω πυλῶν ἐξέλκει καὶ τὰ πάλαι δὴ κατὰ ἀαεβῶν ὡς ἐν μύθου λόγῳ παρὰ τοῖς πλείστοις ἀπιατούμενα, πιστά γε μὴν πιατοῖς ἐν ἱεραῖς βίβλοις ἐατηλιτευμένα, αὐτῇ ἐναργείᾳ πᾶσιν ἁπλῶς εἰπεῖν, πιστοῖς καὶ ἀπίατοις, ὀφθαλμοῖς τὰ παράδοξα παρειληφόαιν , ἐπιστώσατο. ὥαπερ γοῦν ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῦ Μωυσέως καὶ τοῦ πάλαι θεοσεβοῦς Ἑβραίων γένους “ ἅρματα Φαραὼ καὶ τὴν δύναμιν αὐτοῦ ἔρριψεν εἰς θάλασσαν, ἐπιλέκτους ἀναβάτας τριστάτας· κατεπόθηααν ἐν θαλάσσῃ. ἐρυθρᾷ, πόντος ἐκάλυψεν αὐτούς,” κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ δὴ καὶ Mαξέντιος οἵ τε ἀμφ᾿ αὐτὸν ὁπλῖται καὶ δορυφόροι “ἔδυσαν εἰς βυθὸν ὡς εἰ λίθος,” ὁπηνίκα νῶτα δοὺς τῇ ἐκ θεοῦ μετὰ Kωναταντίνου δυνάμει, τὸν πρὸ τῆς πορείας διῄει ποταμόν, ὃν αὐτὸς σκάφεσιν ζεύξας καὶ εὖ μάλα γεφυρώσας μηχανὴν ὀλέθρου καθ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ αυνεατήσατο· ἐφ᾿ ᾧ ἦν εἰπεῖν “λάκκον ὤρυξεν καὶ ἀνέακαφεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἐμπεσεῖται εἰς βόθρον ὃν εἰργάσατο. ἐπιστρέφει ὁ πόνος αὐτοῦ εἰς κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπὶ κορυφὴν αὐτοῦ ἢ ἀδικία αὐτοῦ καταβήαεται.”

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9.8.8

Ταύτῃ δῆτα τοῦ ἐπὶ τοῦ ποταμοῦ ζεύγματος διαλυθέντος, ὑφιζάνει μὲν ἡ διάβασις, χωρεῖ δ᾿ ἀθρόως αὔτανδρα κατὰ τοῦ βυθοῦ τὰ σκάφη, καὶ αὐτός γε πρῶτος ὁ δυσσεβέστατος, εἶτα δὲ καὶ οἱ ἀμφ’ αὐτὸν ὑπασπισταί, ᾖ τὰ θεῖα προαναφωνεῖ λόγια, ἔδυσαν ὡς εἰ μόλιβδος ἐν ὕδατι σφοδρῷ· ὥστε εἰκότως εἰ μὴ λόγοις ἔργοις δ’ οὗν ὁμοίως τοῖς ἀμφὶ τὸν μέγαν θεράποντα Μωυσέα τοὺς παρὰ θεοῦ τὴν νίκην ἀραμένους αὐτὰ δὴ τὰ κατὰ τοῦ πάλαι δυσσεβοῦς τυράννου ὧδέ πως ἄν ὑμνεῖν καὶ λέγειν “ᾄσωμεν τῷ κυρίῳ, ἐνδόξως γὰρ δεδόξασται. ἵππον καὶ ἀναβάτην ἔρριφεν εἰς θάλασσαν· βοηθὸς καὶ σκεπαστής μου κύριος, ἐγένετό μοι εἰς σωτηρίαν” καὶ “τίς ὅμοιός ἀοῖ ἐν θεοῖς, κύριε, τίς ὅμοιός ἀοῖ; δεδοξασμένος ἐν ἁγίοις, θαυμαστὸς ἐν δόξαις, ποιῶν τέρατα.

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9.8.9

ταῦτα καὶ ὅσα τούτοις ἀδελφά τε καὶ ἐμφερῆ Κωνσταντῖνος τῷ πανηγεμόνι καὶ τῆς νίκης αἰτίῳ θεῷ αὐτοῖς ἔργοις ἀνυμνήσας, ἐπὶ Ῥώμης μετ’ ἐπινικίων εἰσήλαυνεν, πάντων ἀθρόως αὐτὸν ἅμα κομιδῆ νηπίοις καὶ γυναιξὶν τῶν τε ἀπὸ τῆς συγκλήτου βουλῆς καὶ τῶν ἄλλως διασημοτάτων σὺν παντὶ δήμῳ Ῥωμαίων φαιδροῖς ὄμμασιν αὐταῖς ψυχαῖς οἷα λυτρωτὴν σωτῆρά τε καὶ εὐεργέτην μετ’ εὐφημιῶν καὶ ἀπλήστου χαρᾶς ὑποδεχομένων· ὃ δ’ ὥσπερ ἔμφυτον τὴν εἰς θεὸν εὐσέβειαν κεκτημένος, ] μηδ’ ὅλως ἐπὶ ταῖς βοαῖς ὑποσαλευόμενος μένος μηδ’ ἐπαιρόμενος τοῖς ἐπαίνοις, εὗ μάλα τῆς ἐκ θεοῦ συνῃσθημένος βοηθείας, αὐτίκα τοῦ σωτηρίου τρόπαιον πάθους ὑπὸ χεῖρα ἰδίας εἰκόνος ἀνατεθῆναι προστάττει, καὶ δὴ τὸ σωτήριον σημεῖον ἐπὶ τῇ δεξιᾷ κατέχοντα αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ μάλιστα τῶν ἐπὶ Ῥώμης δεδημοσιευμένῳ τόπῳ στήσαντας αὐτὴν δὴ ταύτην προγραφὴν ἐντάξαι ῥήμασιν αὐτοῖς τῇ Ῥωμαίων ἐγκελεύεται φωνὴ “τούτῳ τῷ σω- ] τηριώδει σημείῳ, τῷ ἀληθεῖ ἐλέγχῳ τῆς ἀνδρείας τὴν πόλιν ὑμῶν ἀπὸ ζυγοῦ τοῦ τυράννου διασωθεῖσαν ἠλευθέρωσα, ἔτι μὴν καὶ τὴν σύγκλητον καὶ τὸν δῆμον Ῥωμαίων τῆ ἀρχαίᾳ ἐπιφανείᾳ καὶ λαμπρότητι ἐλευθερώσας ἀποκατέστησα.”

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9.8.10

καὶ δὴ ἐπὶ τούτοις αὐτός τε Κωνσταντῖνος καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ βασιλεὺς Λικίννιος, οὔπω τότε ἐφ’ ἢν ὕστερον ἐκπέπτωκεν μανίαν τὴν διάνοιαν ἐκτραπείς, θεὸν τὸν τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἁπάντων αὐτοῖς αἴτιον εὐμενίσαντες, ἄμφω μιᾷ βουλῆ καὶ γνώμη νόμον ὑπὲρ χριστιανῶν τελεώτατον πληρέστατα διατυποῦνται, τυποῦνται, καὶ τῶν πεπραγμένων εἰς αὐτοὺς ἐκ θεοῦ τὰ παράδοξα τά τε τῆς κατὰ τοῦ τυράννου νίκης καὶ τὸν νόμον αὐτὸν Μαξιμίνῳ, τῶν ἐπ’ ἀνατολῆς ἐθνῶν ἔτι δυναστεύοντι φιλίαν τε πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὑποκοριζομένῳ, διαπέμπονται. ὃ δ’ οἷα τύραννος περιαλγὴς ἐφ’ οἷς ἔγνω, γεγενημένος, εἶτα μὴ δοκεῖν ἑτέροις εἶξαι βουλόμενος μηδ’ αὖ παρεκθέσθαι τὸ κελευσθὲν δέει τῶν προστεταχότων ὡς ἂν ἐξ ἰδίας αὐθεντίας τοῖς ὑπ’ αὐτὸν ἡγεμόσιν τοῦτο πρῶτον ὑπὲρ Χριστιανῶν ἐπάναγκες διαχαράττει χαράττει τὸ γράμμα, τὰ μηδέπω ποτὲ πρὸς αὐτοῦ πεπραγμένα ἐπιπλάστως αὐτὸς καθ’ ἑαυτοῦ ψευδόμενος.

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