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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 7662664, member: 87200&quot;]Excerpt from Ammianus Marcellinus, Liber XXV</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Meanwhile, all who were present wept, whereupon even then maintaining his authority, he chided them, saying that it was unworthy to mourn for a prince who was called to union with heaven and the stars. As this made them all silent, he himself engaged with the philosophers Maximus and Priscus in an intricate discussion about the nobility of the soul. Suddenly the wound in his pierced side opened wide, the pressure of the blood checked his breath, and after a draught of cold water for which he had asked, in the gloom of midnight he passed quietly away in the thirty-second year of his age.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>According to Eusebius, his last words were &quot;Thou hast conquered, Galilean.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1317082[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1317083[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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