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| Victories of Constantine over the Barbarians and the Britons.
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Chapter XXV.—Victories of
Constantine over the Barbarians and the Britons.
As soon
then as he was established on the throne, he began to care for the
interests of his paternal inheritance, and visited with much
considerate kindness all those provinces which had previously been
under his father’s government. Some tribes of the barbarians who
dwelt on the banks of the Rhine, and the shores of the Western ocean,
having ventured to revolt, he reduced them all to obedience, and
brought them from their savage state to one of gentleness. He contented
himself with checking the inroads of others, and drove from his
dominions, like untamed and savage beasts, those whom he perceived to
be altogether incapable of the settled order of civilized life.3101
| 3101 The
Franci, Bructeri, &c. | Having disposed of these affairs to his
satisfaction, he directed his attention to other quarters of the world,
and first passed over to the British nations,3102
| 3102 [Eusebius here speaks of a second expedition of Constantine
to Britain, which is not mentioned by other ancient writers; or he may
have been forgetful or ignorant of the fact that Constantine had
received the imperial authority in Britain itself, Constantius having
died in his palace at York, a.d. 306. Vide
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, chap. 14.—Bag.] It
seems to be a part of the confusion about his crossing to Britain in
the first place. |
which lie in the very bosom of the ocean. These he reduced to
submission, and then proceeded to consider the state of the remaining
portions of the empire, that he might be ready to tender his aid
wherever circumstances might require it.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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