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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 8017225, member: 120820&quot;]It&#039;s an interesting source for sure, not least for his gruesome description of Galerius&#039; ailment, but no one source can be relied upon. Everyone has an axe to grind (and even more so for most modern writers!). Lactantius&#039;s message in De Mortibus was obviously pretty specific - if you oppose Christianity, then bad things will happen to you!</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as Constantine&#039;s &quot;vision&quot; I think Lactantius is to be preferred over Eusebius since he both actually knew Constantine (being tutor to Crispus), and was writing closer to events. As I recall, Eusebius only ever met Constantine once, and his writing is anyways notoriously revisionist. In early revisions of &quot;Vita&quot; Licinius is a good guy for supporting Christianity, but later he has to be recast as a bad guy since Constantine killed him, and that needed some apology.</p><p><br /></p><p>Victor Clark, who gave you the SPES PVBLIC photo above, has a good list of source documents on his web site. If your goal is to discover the actual history, then you want to read all sources, both pagan and Christian. If you just want to describe Christian propaganda, then Eusebius is your guy!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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