Lactantius,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died…
(1885)
“ Diocletian, as being of a timorous disposition, was a searcher into futurity, and during his abode in the East he began to slay victims, that from their livers he might obtain a prognostic of events; and while he sacrificed, some attendants of his, who were Christians, stood by, and they put the immortal sign on their foreheads. ”
