. Costantino il Grande; la riorganizzazione dell'impero e il trionfo della chiesa. Massimiano e Massenzio furono così lasciati in possesso innamuto dell'Italia. Erano chiaramente inalliance con Costantino, ma le loro relazioni tra loro erano eccessivamente anomale. Entrambi presentati in colori ugualmente odiosi. Eutropiusdescrive il padre come immolato e brutale, privo di fede, problematico e completamente privo di buoni uomini; Aurelio Victor dice del figlio che nessuno lo ha inchiodato, nemmeno suo padre. Infatti, i mongers scandalosi del giorno hanno negato il

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. Constantine the Great; the reorganisation of the empire and the triumph of the church . ems to have beenattempted. Maximian and Maxentius were thus left in undis-puted possession of Italy. They were clearly inalliance with Constantine, but their relations withone another were exceedingly anomalous. Both arerepresented in equally odious colours. Eutropiusdescribes the father as embittered and brutal, faith-less, troublesome, and utterly devoid of good man-ners ; Aurelius Victor says of the son that no oneever Hked him, not even his own father. Indeed, the scandal-mongers of the day denied the parentageof Maxentius and said that he was the son of somelow-born Syrian and had been foisted upon Max-imian by his wife as her own child. Public opinion, however, was inclined to throw the blame of therupture, which speedily took place between Max-imian and Maxentius, upon the older man, who isdepicted as a restless and mischievous intriguer.In Rome, at any rate, the army looked to the sonas its chief, and as there was but one army, therewas no room for two Emperors. Lactantius tells. BUST OF MAXIMIAN AT ROME. PHOTOGRAPH BY ALINARI. Constantine and His Colleagues 63 the story that Maximian called a great mass meetingof citizens and soldiers, dilated at length upon theevils of the situation, and then, turning to his son, declared that he was the cause of all the trouble andsnatched the purple from his shoulders. But Max-imian had the mortification of seeing Maxentius shel-tered instead of slaughtered by the soldiers, and itwas he himself who was driven with ignominy fromthe city, like a second Tarquin the Proud. Whether these circumstantial details are to be ac-cepted or not, there is no doubt as to the sequel.Maximian was expelled from Rome and Italy, andbegan a series of wanderings which were only to endwith his death. He seems first of all to have fledinto Gaul and thrown himself upon the protection ofhis son-in-law, Constantine, and then to have openedup negotiations with Ga

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