Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . book of medita-tions in Greek and Latin has been often printed, and universally admired forthe excellence of its morality. CONSTANTINE THE GREAT. 49 CONSTANT! NE THE GREAT. C aus FLAVIUS VALERIUS AURELIUS CLAUDIUS CONSTANTIXE, surnamed theI-REAT, emperor of the Romans, was the son of Constantius Chlorus, by Hel-ena, and born A. D. 274
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . book of medita-tions in Greek and Latin has been often printed, and universally admired forthe excellence of its morality. CONSTANTINE THE GREAT. 49 CONSTANT! NE THE GREAT. C aus FLAVIUS VALERIUS AURELIUS CLAUDIUS CONSTANTIXE, surnamed theI-REAT, emperor of the Romans, was the son of Constantius Chlorus, by Hel-ena, and born A. D. 274. On tho death of his father, in 306, he was proclaimedemperor by the troops. After defeating the Franks, he crossed the Rhine intoBelgium, which he overran. In 307 he married Fausta, the daughter of Max-iminian, but he was soon involved in a war with his father-in-law, who assumedthe title of emperor. The usurpers reio-n was brief; and on his being takenprisoner, Constantine caused him to be strangled. This involved him in a warwith Maxentius, son of Maximinian, in which the latter was defeated anddrowned in the Tiber. In memory of this victory the senate and people ofRome erected the arch of Constantine, and dedicated it to that emperor. It ::V .- I;.-,. Arch of Constantine. stands at the junction of the Celian and Palatine hills, in the Via Appia, andis the most splendid, because the best-preserved edifice of the kind remainingin Rome. It was when going to fight Maxentius, that Constantine, as he allegedto Eusebius, saw a luminous cross in the heavens with the inscription : Inhoc siorno vinces—( Under this sign thou shalt conquer). He accordinglycaused a standard to be made in imitation of this cross ; marched to Rome intriumph ; published the memorable edict of toleration in favor of the Christians ;and was declared by the senate, chief, Augustus, and pontifex maximus. Con-stantine had married his daughter to Licinius ; but the latter, jealous of hisfame, took up arms aga
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