The motives of his conversion, as they may variously be deduced from benevolence, from policy, from conviction, or from remorse, and the progress of the revolution, which, under his powerful influence and that of his sons, rendered Christianity the reigning religion of the Roman empire, will form a very interesting and important chapter in the present volume of this history.

At present it may be sufficient to observe, that every victory of Constantine was productive of some relief or benefit to the church.
[Footnote 165: Eusebius, l.viii.c.13.Lactantius de M.P.c.

15.
Dodwell (Dissertat.Cyprian.xi.

75) represents them as inconsistent with each other.

But the former evidently speaks of Constantius in the station of Caesar, and the latter of the same prince in the rank of Augustus.] [Footnote 166: Datianus is mentioned, in Gruter's Inscriptions, as having determined the limits between the territories of Pax Julia, and those of Ebora, both cities in the southern part of Lusitania.