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| Death of Constans Cæsar. Occurrences which took place in Rome.
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Book IV.
Chapter I.—Death of
Constans Cæsar. Occurrences which took place in Rome.
Four years after the council of
Sardica,1282
| 1282According to Soz. a.d. 351,
really a.d. 350.
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Constans was killed in Western Gaul.1283
| 1283Ruf. H. E. i. 19; Soc. ii. 25, 26. Soz. here
condenses Soc. Cf. Athan. Apol. ad. Imp. Constantium.
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Magnentius, who had plotted his murder, reduced the entire government
of Constans under his own sway. In the meantime Vetranio was proclaimed
emperor at Sirmium, by the Illyrian troops. Nepotian, the son of the
late emperor’s sister, gathered about him a body of gladiators,
and wrangled for the imperial power, and ancient Rome had the greatest
share of these evils. Nepotian, however, was put to death by the
soldiers of Magnentius.1284
| 1284Zos. ii. 41–53; Am. Marcel. xv. 1, 2; Petrus
Patricius, Historia, 14; Eutrop. Brev. Hist. Rom. x.
9–11.
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Constantius, finding himself the sole master of the empire, was
proclaimed sole ruler, and hastened to depose the tyrants. In the
meantime, Athanasius, having arrived in Alexandria, prepared to convene
a Synod of the Egyptian bishops, and had the enactments confirmed which
had been passed at Sardica, and in Palestine, in his favor.
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