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These writers agree in representing the arts of Maximin; but the former relates the execution of several martyrs, while the latter expressly affirms, occidi servos Dei vetuit.

* Note: It is easy to reconcile them; it is sufficient to quote the entire text of Lactantius: Nam cum clementiam specie tenus profiteretur, occidi servos Dei vetuit, debilitari jussit.

Itaque confessoribus effodiebantur oculi, amputabantur manus, nares vel auriculae desecabantur.

Haec ille moliens Constantini litteris deterretur.