Lactantius,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died…
(1885)
“ So he, who for twenty years was the most prosperous of emperors, having been cast down into the obscurity of a private station, treated in the most contumelious manner, and compelled to abhor life, became incapable of receiving nourishment, and, worn out with anguish of mind, expired. ”
