Lactantius,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died…
(1885)
“ Maxentius, thus stripped, leaped headlong from the tribunal, and was received into the arms of the soldiers. Their rage and clamour confounded the unnatural old man, and, like another Tarquin the Proud, he was driven from Rome. ”
