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Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
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26 Sed inter haec latent causae, cur uindicem gladium et destinatam in impios punitionem Constantinus imperator etiam in proprios egit affectus. nam Crispum filium suum et Licinium sororis filium interfecit. praeterea multas gentes diuersis proeliis subegit. 27 Vrbem nominis sui Romanorum regum uel primus uel solus instituit. quae sola expers idolorum ad hoc breuissimo tempore condita a Christiano imperatore prouecta est, ut sola Romae, tot saeculis miseriisque prouectae, forma et potentia merito possit aequari. 28 Tum deinde primus Constantinus iusto ordine et pio uicem uertit: edicto siquidem statuit citra ullam hominum caedem paganorum templa claudi. 29 Mox Gothorum fortissimas et copiosissimas gentes in ipso barbarici soli sinu, hoc est in Sarmatarum regione, deleuit. 30 Calocaerum quendam in Cypro adspirantem nouis rebus oppressit. tricennalibus suis Dalmatium Caesarem legit. 31 Cumque bellum in Persas moliretur, in uilla publica iuxta Nicomediam, dispositam bene rempublicam filiis tradens, diem obiit. |
| Translation |
26. In the middle of these affairs, it remains unclear why, the emperor
Constantine was moved to turn his avenging sword and the punishment
he had devised for blasphemers against his own kin. For he killed his son,
Crispus, and his sister’s son, Licinius. Besides this, he embroiled many
peoples in war. 27. He was the first, or rather the only, Roman king to
found a town which took his own name. This town, the only one free of idolatry, reached, very soon after its foundation by a Christian emperor,
such a size that it was the only town able to rival Rome, a town which had
grown to this size in beauty and power only through many centuries of
suffering. 28. Then Constantine was the first to change the old order to
a new and just disposition of affairs. He decreed by edict that the pagans’
temples be closed down, without killing a single man. 29. Soon afterwards,
he annihilated the teeming, powerful tribes of the Goths in the very
heart of the barbarian lands themselves, namely Sarmatia. 30. He crushed
Calocaerus who attempted to launch a revolution on Cyprus. On the 30th
anniversary of his reign, he chose Dalmatius as his Caesar. 31. He died
in the state residence close to Nicomedia while on campaign against the
Persians, leaving the state in good order for his sons. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 7, Cap. 28, 26-31 (Vol. III, pp. 78-9, trans. Fear, pp. 371-2) |
| Temporal Coverage |
336 - 337 |
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