Lactantius in a sentence

According to Lactantius, Constantine followed his father in following a tolerant policy towards Christianity.

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.

Ancient sources commenting on these events attribute this decision either to divine intervention (e.g. Lactantius, Eusebius) or superstition (e.g. Zosimus).

As recorded by Lactantius : God either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, or can but does not want to, or neither wishes to nor can, or both wants to and can.

Crispus was put to death in 326, but when Lactantius died and under what circumstances are unknown.

Epicurus's argument as presented by Lactantius actually argues that a god that is all-powerful and all-good does not exist and that the gods are distant and uninvolved with man's concerns.

He may have attended the lectures of Lactantius, a Christian scholar of Latin in the city.

Here, Lactantius preserves the story of Constantine's vision of the Chi Rho before his conversion to Christianity.

In 310, Lactantius wrote that Nero "suddenly disappeared, and even the burial place of that noxious wild beast was nowhere to be seen.

In Lactantius' account, when Diocletian announced that he was to resign, the entire crowd turned to face Constantine.

Lactantius argued that Aurelian would have outlawed all the other gods if he had had enough time.

Lactantius at the opening of the 4th century is the first to do so: Augustine, however, treats him with respect.

Lactantius attributes this trilemma to Epicurus in De Ira Dei: God, he says, either wishes to take away evils, and is unable; or He is able, and is unwilling; or He is neither willing nor able, or He is both willing and able.

Lactantius describes that sign as a "staurogram", or a Latin cross with its upper end rounded in a P-like fashion.

Lactantius Placidus, commentary on Statius, Thebaid v.431, according to whom the bull was sent, in answer to Minos's prayer, not by Poseidon but by Jupiter.

Lactantius states that Galerius manipulated the weakened Diocletian into resigning, and forced him to accept Galerius' allies in the imperial succession.

Lactantius states that, in the night before the battle, Constantine was commanded in a dream to "delineate the heavenly sign on the shields of his soldiers" (On the Deaths of the Persecutors 44.5).

Lieu and Montserrat, 45. Lactantius describes the death of Maxentius in the following manner: "The bridge in his rear was broken down.

Lit., II,416 Lactantius had a successful public career at first.

Potter, 336; Southern, 161. Lactantius has written of the perverse accompaniments to the edict; of goods withdrawn from the market, of brawls over minute variations in price, of the deaths that came when its provisions were enforced.