[13]. See Murdock's note in Mosheim's Eccl. Hist., Bk. i, Cent. iii, Ch. ii.
[14]. Mosheim, (Murdock) Bk. i, Cent. iii, Ch. ii.
[15]. "Decline and Fall," Vol i., Ch. xvi.
[16]. Milner's Church Hist., Vol. i, Cent. iii, Ch. viii.
[17]. The situation was this: A year after his elevation to the imperial throne, Diocletian, believing the government of the vast empire of Rome a task too great for a single mind, chose Maximianus Herculius, commonly called Maximian, to be his colleague and to share with him the title of Augustus. After a few years each of the emperors chose a colleague in order to still further divide the labor of administration. These were Constantius Chlorus and Galerius Maximianus, usually called by his first name. Constantius and Galerius occupied an inferior position to that of Diocletian and Maximian, and were honored only with the title of "Caesar."
[18]. Eusebius Eccl. Hist., Bk. viii, Ch. ii.
[19]. Eusebius Eccl. Hist., Bk. viii, Ch. vi.
[20]. Eusebius Eccl. Hist., Bk. viii, Ch. vi.
[21]. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist., Cent, iv, Part i, Ch. i.
[22]. This torture was raking the flesh from the body by means of an iron-toothed instrument.