Potentissimi quondam Eunuchi necati, per quos Palatium et ipse constabat.

Eusebius (l.
viii.c.

6) mentions the cruel executions of the eunuchs, Gorgonius and Dorotheus, and of Anthimius, bishop of Nicomedia; and both those writers describe, in a vague but tragical manner, the horrid scenes which were acted even in the Imperial presence.] [Footnote 156: See Lactantius, Eusebius, and Constantine, ad Coetum Sanctorum, c.xxv.Eusebius confesses his ignorance of the cause of this fire.

Note: As the history of these times affords us no example of any attempts made by the Christians against their persecutors, we have no reason, not the slightest probability, to attribute to them the fire in the palace; and the authority of Constantine and Lactantius remains to explain it.

M.de Tillemont has shown how they can be reconciled.
Hist.