quoniam id reprehendendum sciebat, in consilium multos advocabat, ut alioram culpao adscriberetur quicquid ipse deliquerat.Lact.

ib.
Eutropius says likewise, Miratus callide fuit, sagax praeterea et admodum subtilis ingenio, et qui severitatem suam aliena invidia vellet explere.Eutrop.ix.c.

26 .-- G .-- --The manner in which the coarse and unfriendly pencil of the author of the Treatise de Mort.Pers.has drawn the character of Diocletian, seems inconsistent with this profound subtilty.

Many readers will perhaps agree with Gibbon .-- M.] [Footnote 148: The only circumstance which we can discover, is the devotion and jealousy of the mother of Galerius.

She is described by Lactantius, as Deorum montium cultrix; mulier admodum superstitiosa.