The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . DECIUS. CHAPTER XI. GALERIUS AND N the year 304, Diocletian went to Rome to celebratea triumph, less glorious in modern eyes than thoseof the Scipios and other ancient heroes. Returningto Nicomedia, he had a long and mysterious recovering from this, he astonished the world byhis abdication, and retired to a farm and palace nearSalona, on the eastern shore of the Adriatic sea, in hisnative country of Dalmatia. Here he lived for eightyears, planting cabb
The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . DECIUS. CHAPTER XI. GALERIUS AND N the year 304, Diocletian went to Rome to celebratea triumph, less glorious in modern eyes than thoseof the Scipios and other ancient heroes. Returningto Nicomedia, he had a long and mysterious recovering from this, he astonished the world byhis abdication, and retired to a farm and palace nearSalona, on the eastern shore of the Adriatic sea, in hisnative country of Dalmatia. Here he lived for eightyears, planting cabbages and meditating on the vanityof earthly greatness. If he felt remorse for the cruel-ties he had allowed and practiced, he made no Hercules was forced to abdi-cate also. They were succeeded by Galerius in theEast, who made his nephew Maximin Duza his Caesar,and in the West by Constantius Chlorus and Maxen-tius, the latter a son of the retired Maximian. Licin-ius and Constantine also presently came to the frontas associate emperors. If the modern reader finds ittroublesome to keep in his mind so many royal names,the subjects of th
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