A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. liu —Ancient Chustian saicophagus, Rome, Lateran. The scallop-shell in thecentre gives portraits of the deceased. The other reliefs contain scenes from the Oldand Xew Testaments, not kept distinct: Lazarus brought to life; Peters denial of hisLord, marked by the cock; Moses receiving the tables of the I,aw; Abrahams .sac-riflce of Isaac; Pilate washing his hands. Below: Moses striking the rock in thewilderness; perhaps the seizure of Peter; Daniel in the den of lions; Job; Christgiving sight to the bl
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. liu —Ancient Chustian saicophagus, Rome, Lateran. The scallop-shell in thecentre gives portraits of the deceased. The other reliefs contain scenes from the Oldand Xew Testaments, not kept distinct: Lazarus brought to life; Peters denial of hisLord, marked by the cock; Moses receiving the tables of the I,aw; Abrahams .sac-riflce of Isaac; Pilate washing his hands. Below: Moses striking the rock in thewilderness; perhaps the seizure of Peter; Daniel in the den of lions; Job; Christgiving sight to the blind; and the miracle of the loaves and fishes. (From a photo-graph.) 230 CONSTANTINE THE WAR BETWEEN CONSTANTINE AND LICINIUS. 231 forbade the synods of the bishops, and banished the Christian worshipfrom tlie towns into the open country. Tliere were cases of banish-ment, of condemnation to labor in the mines, of selling into slavery,even of prominent persons. By 322 the struggle for the sole sovereignty could no longerbe put off. Constantine took up his residence in Thessalonica, wherehe built a vast naval harbor, and gathered his fleet at the assembled his in the Hellespont. He proclaimed himself anadherent of the old religion, and the coming conflict as a struggle be-tween the old gods and the new strange god to decide the religionof the empire. Constantine had an army of 120,000 infantry, com-prising many Franks and Goths, and 10,000 cavalry and marines, anda fleet of 200 ships-of-war and 2000 transports. Licinius defended theHellespont with 350 warships; and at Adrianople had 150,000 infan-try, including many Goths, and 15,000 Asiatic horsemen.
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