Note 006 The question of the time when Maximian received the honours of Caesar and Augustus has divided modern critics and given occasion to a great deal of learned wrangling. I have followed M. de Tillemont (Histoire des Empereurs, tom. iv. p. 500-505), who has weighed the several reasons and difficulties with his scrupulous accuracy.

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Note to Chapter 13 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon