De Mortibus Persecutorum
De Mortibus Persecutorum
Lactantius narrates the gruesome deaths of every emperor who persecuted Christians as proof of divine retribution, writing shortly after Constantine and Licinius's joint 313 toleration edict but years before Constantine summoned him to Trier as his son Crispus's tutor, producing both a polemical history and a rare eyewitness-adjacent source for the era.
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