Rufinus has mistaken the office of Adauctus, as well as the place of his martyrdom.

* Note: M.Guizot suggests the powerful cunuchs of the palace.

Dorotheus, Gorgonius, and Andrew, admitted by Gibbon himself to have been put to death, p.

66.] The revolt of Maxentius immediately restored peace to the churches of Italy and Africa; and the same tyrant who oppressed every other class of his subjects, showed himself just, humane, and even partial, towards the afflicted Christians.

He depended on their gratitude and affection, and very naturally presumed, that the injuries which they had suffered, and the dangers which they still apprehended from his most inveterate enemy, would secure the fidelity of a party already considerable by their numbers and opulence.