Note 003 Lactantius (or whoever was the author of the little treatise De Mortibus Persecutorum) accuses Diocletian of timidity in two places, c. 7, 8. In chap. 9 he says of him, ''erat in omni tumultu meticulosus et animi disjectus."

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Note to Chapter 13 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon