Diocletian is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Diocletian meaning
Roman cognomen, particularly borne by the Roman emperor Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus (245-313).
Synonyms of Diocletian
Using Diocletian
- The main meaning on this page is: Roman cognomen, particularly borne by the Roman emperor Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus (245-313).
- Useful related words include: roman emperor, emperor of rome.
- In the example corpus, diocletian often appears in combinations such as: diocletian and, diocletian was, of diocletian.
Context around Diocletian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 2 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Diocletian
- In this selection, "diocletian" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, woman, bowman, rees, windows, took and epoch stand out and add context to how "diocletian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include diocletian s last and also rees diocletian and the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "diocletian" sits close to words such as aguilar, aquinas and authoritarianism, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with diocletian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Diocletian's Last CabbageHello, is there anybuddy out there? (9 words)
Diocletian's Last CabbageAquapope: I have been a bad Caturday friend. (11 words)
As leader of the united East, Diocletian was clearly the greater threat. (12 words)
Cascio, "The New State of Diocletian and Constantine" (CAH), 173. See also: Rees, Diocletian and the Tetrarchy, 18. Most taxes were due on each year on 1 September, and levied from individual landowners by decuriones (decurions). (36 words)
Diocletian took the bull by the horns and issued a new denarius which was frankly of copper and made no pretense of being anything else; in doing this he established a new standard of value. (35 words)
Having converted to Christianity, he resigned his post citation before Diocletian's purging of Christians from his immediate staff and before the publication of Diocletian's first "Edict against the Christians" (February 24, 303). (34 words)
Diocletian's Last Cabbage: howdy DLC (insert witty comment here) how you doing? (13 words)
Diocletian's Last CabbageHello, is there anybuddy out there? (9 words)
Diocletian's Last CabbageSomebuddy give me a pyromaniac cat to warm me up! (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Diocletian's Last CabbageMudd's woman: Diocletian's Last Cabbage: Hey guys, I need to call in some favors.
According to Lactantius, the crowd listening to Diocletian's resignation speech believed, until the very last moment, that Diocletian would choose Constantine and Maxentius (Maximian's son) as his successors.
Bowman, "Diocletian and the First Tetrarchy" (CAH), 69; Southern, 136. The relationship between Diocletian and Maximian was quickly couched in religious terms.
Cascio, "The New State of Diocletian and Constantine" (CAH), 173. See also: Rees, Diocletian and the Tetrarchy, 18. Most taxes were due on each year on 1 September, and levied from individual landowners by decuriones (decurions).
Having converted to Christianity, he resigned his post citation before Diocletian's purging of Christians from his immediate staff and before the publication of Diocletian's first "Edict against the Christians" (February 24, 303).
Southern, 160; Treadgold, 20. Diocletian's reforms also increased the number of financial officials in the provinces: more rationales and magistri privatae are attested under Diocletian's reign than before.
St Caius may not have been martyred: Diocletian’s persecution of Christians began in 303 AD, after Caius’ alleged death, and Diocletian was not immediately hostile to Christianity upon becoming emperor.
Although the house is not especially large it architecturally significant because of its Diocletian windows and dramatic 19th-century terracing.
He welcomed visiting Americans into his studio in the Baths of Diocletian, including Roosevelt and Grant.
It has been going on since at least the days of Nero and Diocletian and will continue so long as there are people who crave power for power's sake.
This week it called the ban comparable to "persecutions in the Roman Empire in the times of Nero and Diocletian, the so-called de-Christianisation of France and atheist repressions in the Soviet Union".
Diocletian's Last Cabbage: howdy DLC (insert witty comment here) how you doing?
Diocletian's Last CabbageHello, is there anybuddy out there?
Diocletian took the bull by the horns and issued a new denarius which was frankly of copper and made no pretense of being anything else; in doing this he established a new standard of value.
In Europe, the Diocletian epoch was used until the 6th to 7th century.
This is very strange since Diocletian, in 303 and 304 CE, promulgated four anti-Christian laws which led to brutal repressions against Christians, especially in the eastern part of the empire.
Diocletian's Last CabbageAquapope: I have been a bad Caturday friend.
Diocletian's Last Cabbage: FtP has the latest news from my apartment situation.
Diocletian's Last CabbageSomebuddy give me a pyromaniac cat to warm me up!
As leader of the united East, Diocletian was clearly the greater threat.
Common combinations with diocletian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- diocletian and 16×
- diocletian was 12×
- of diocletian 7×
- that diocletian 4×
- and diocletian 4×
- diocletian in 3×
- diocletian to 3×
- under diocletian 3×
- by diocletian 3×
- when diocletian 3×