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| Of the Adulterous Conduct of Maxentius at Rome.
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Chapter
XXXIII.—Of the Adulterous Conduct of
Maxentius at Rome.3117
| 3117 Compare the Church History, 8. 14. |
For he
who had tyrannically possessed himself of the imperial city,3118
| 3118 Maxentius, made emperor by an uprising of the Prætorian
Guards in 306. | had proceeded to great lengths in
impiety and wickedness, so as to venture without hesitation on every
vile and impure action.
For example: he would separate
women from their husbands, and after a time send them back to them
again, and these insults he offered not to men of mean or obscure
condition, but to those who held the first places in the Roman senate.
Moreover, though he shamefully dishonored almost numberless free women,
he was unable to satisfy his ungoverned and intemperate desires. But3119
| 3119 “For” seems to express the author’s real
meaning, but both punctuation of editors and renderings of translators
insist on “but.” | when he assayed to corrupt Christian
women also, he could no longer secure success to his designs, since
they chose rather to submit their lives3120
| 3120 Various readings of text add “lawfully married” women,
and send them back again “grievously dishonored,” and so
Bag., but Heinichen has this reading. Compare note of
Heinichen. |
to death than yield their persons to be defiled by him.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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