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§5. Third Five
Years.
About the time of his decennial
celebration,3028
| 3028 Perhaps earlier and perhaps later. It is generally placed in 317
(cf. Clinton, p. 370). | his sons Crispus and Constantine,
and Licinius, son of Licinius, were made Cæsars. The peace between
the emperors continued during the whole of this period. There was more
or less fighting with the frontier tribes, Crispus, e.g., defeating the
Franks in 320 (Naz. Paneg. c. 3. 17?), but the main interest of
the period does not lie in its wars. It was a period of legislation and
internal improvement (cf. Laws of 319, 320, 321, collected in Clinton,
1, p. 9; also De Broglie, I. 1, 296–97). Early in the period he
was at Milan, where the Donatist matter, which had been dragging along
since 311, came up for final settlement (cf. note, above). He was also
at one time or another at Arles and at Rome, but the latter and greater
part of the period was spent mainly in Dacia and Pannonia (cf. Laws, as
above). The close of his fifteen years was celebrated somewhat
prematurely at Rome, in the absence of Constantine, by the oration of
Nazarius (cf. Naz. Paneg.).E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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