Dissimulavit ergo, et tamen, si quis inciderit.

mari occulte mergebatur.

This detail of torments inflicted on the Christians easily reconciles Lactantius and Eusebius.

Those who died in consequence of their tortures, those who were plunged into the sea, might well pass for martyrs.

The mutilation of the words of Lactantius has alone given rise to the apparent contradiction .-- G.