Note 005 The impartial Ammianus deserves all our confidence. Proximorum fauces aperuit primus omnium Constantinus. 1. xvi. c. 8. Eusebius himself confesses the abuse (Vit. Constantin. 1. iv. c. 29, 54); and some of the Imperial laws feebly point out the remedy. See p. 337.

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Note to Chapter 18 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon