Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . on fome of his coins, as alfb after-ward, while he was a chriftian, on his moft emi-nent ftatue, as the fame P author fays ; thoughfome take 1 the ftatue there fpoken of, to havebeen rather Aplio^s with Confiantities name oait, whereof we difpute nor. The diadem thathe fo ufed, is the fame, it feems, which the laterGrecians conceived to have been fent him Sacr. Hift. lib. 2. fSueton. in Tito cap. 5. ^ Vide;, fi placet, Jac. Gretrer. d
Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . on fome of his coins, as alfb after-ward, while he was a chriftian, on his moft emi-nent ftatue, as the fame P author fays ; thoughfome take 1 the ftatue there fpoken of, to havebeen rather Aplio^s with Confiantities name oait, whereof we difpute nor. The diadem thathe fo ufed, is the fame, it feems, which the laterGrecians conceived to have been fent him Sacr. Hift. lib. 2. fSueton. in Tito cap. 5. ^ Vide;, fi placet, Jac. Gretrer. de cmce tom. 3. 1. i. p. 1S33. Hiftor. lib, 10. Jor^iandesde regnorumfiicceflT. in Dioclctiano. ^ Gotofredus Viterbienfis ^//0, as it,ni>ra>itly, refers the hegwmngof the tife offtones intheimferial diadem to JuliusCaefar, chron. part. 19. p. 534. 1 Vide Goltz. ad nuraifm. impp. p. 48. ? De coronis, 1. 9. nSelea. lib. I. cap. 5. Devita Conftantini, 1. i. c. 12, P Vide cliron. Alex. p. 664. ?) Vide Zonar. tom. ;. filefacum loco jam diftoj & Gillium topograph. Conftant. 1, 3. c. 3. Conftantin. Porpbyrog. de adm. Rom. imperio, c. 12; frora. The Firji Tarf. fiom heaven. Ic is thusexprefied in his rhough the workof his diadems vvere notalway s in this one form,yet they perpetuallythus bind thehead withplates of gold and jew-els on them. His ufe 166 fince Gompofed; And indeed Cofiftantine ^ in fomeof his coins hath his diadem on his helm, whichmakes it look almoft Hke a kind of clofe the frequent joining of thehelm or cap to thediadem,! obferve nottill about the younger Theo-dofms. And whereas thetying wasufually behindinthefimpler diadems; thofe of this later fafliionwereeither then tiedat both ears aswe may guefsby the labels or fiUets thathang on both fidesof diadem, and his leaviug the triumphal laurel, byturning it into gold and rich ilones on a fillet, istaken by fome to have been in him a pious de-clining the ufe of what was facred to idols, anda
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