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De mortibus persecutorum

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[1] Hoc modo deus universos persecutores nominis sui debellavit, ut eorum nec stirps nec radix ulla remaneret. [2] Nam Licinius summa rerum potitus in primis Valeriam, quam Maximinus iratus ne post fugam quidem, cum sibi videret esse pereundum, fuerat ausus occidere, item Candidianum, quem Valeria ex concubina genitum ob sterilitatem adoptaverat, necari iussit. [3] Mulier tamen ut eum vicisse cognovit, mutato habitu comitatui eius se ‹im›miscuit, ut fortunam Candidiani specularetur; ‹qui› quia Nicomediae se obtulerat et in honore haberi videbatur, nihil tale metuens occisus est. [4] Et illa exitu eius audito protinus fugit. Idem Severi filium Severianum iam aetate robustum, qui fugientem Maximinum fuerat ex acie secutus, tamquam post obitum eius de sumenda purpura cogitasset, capitali sententiae subiectum interemit. [5] Qui omnes Licinium iam pridem quasi malum metuentes, cum lenti Licinio, in omnia Maximiani ‹bona› hereditatis iure suo ‹ne› cedere, item Maximino negaverat. [6] Ipsius quoque Maximini filium [suum] maximum agentem iam annos octo et filiam septennem, quae desponsa fuerat Candidiano, extinxit. Sed prius mater eorum in Orontem praecipitata est; ibi saepe illa castas feminas mergi iusserat. [7] Sic omnes impii vero et iusto iudicio dei eadem quae fecerunt, receperunt.

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Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died

Chap. L.

Thus did God subdue all those who persecuted His name, so that neither root nor branch of them remained; for Licinius, as soon as he was established in sovereign authority, commanded that Valeria should be put to death. Daia, although exasperated against her, never ventured to do this, not even after his discomfiture and flight, and when he knew that his end approached. Licinius commanded that Candidianus also should be put to death. He was the son of Galerius by a concubine, and Valeria, having no children, had adopted him. On the news of the death of Daia, she came in disguise to the court of Licinius, anxious to observe what might befall Candidianus. The youth, presenting himself at Nicomedia, had an outward show of honour paid to him, and, while he suspected no harm, was killed. Hearing of this catastrophe, Valeria immediately fled. The Emperor Severus left a son, Severianus, arrived at man's estate, who accompanied Daia in his flight from the field of battle. Licinius caused him to be condemned and executed, under the pretence that, on the death of Daia, he had intentions of assuming the imperial purple. Long before this time, Candidianus and Severianus, apprehending evil from Licinius, had chosen to remain with Daia; while Valeria favoured Licinius, and was willing to bestow on him that which she had denied to Daia, all rights accruing to her as the widow of Galerius. Licinius also put to death Maximus, the son of Daia, a boy eight years old, and a daughter of Daia, who was seven years old, and had been betrothed to Candidianus. But before their death, their mother had been thrown into the Orontes, in which river she herself had frequently commanded chaste women to be drowned. So, by the unerring and just judgment of God, all the impious received according to the deeds that they had done.