How To Use Diocletian In A Sentence
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Feudalism, European feudalism, was based on the Code of Diocletian which has this embedded in it.
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On 1 May 305 the elderly and physically ailing Diocletian persuaded his reluctant co-Augustus Maximian to abdicate with him, and Constantius and Galerius were jointly elevated to senior honors.
Caesars’ Wives
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The oratory is a single apsidal room frescoed with two separate images of 40 martyrs put to death by the Emperor Diocletian, who in the 3rd century AD had them killed by throwing them into a frozen lake while preparing a hot bath on the shore as a temptation to them.
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In 305 Diocletian willingly and Maximianus reluctantly gave over their power and leadership of the empire to their seconds, making Galerius and Constantius the rulers of the empire.
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We may say that there were two dangers which constantly impended over the Roman Empire from its inauguration by Augustus to its redintegration by Diocletian -- a
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
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A herdsman, tough and uneducated, he rose high in the army and became praetorian prefect of Diocletian, to whom his loyalty was unswerving.
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Next up are Siddhartha, Hasdrubal, Montezuma, John of Gaunt, and finally my lifelong dream: Diocletian.
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Seeking her hand for his son-in-law Maximilian, the emperor Diocletian sent two of his officers successively to negotiate the marriage.
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Historians have not settled on a good name for the centuries between Diocletian and Charlemagne, but this phrase is at least serviceable.
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This library was attached by Diocletian, as an ornament, to his thermae.
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83 But this vain prodigality, which the prudence of Diocletian might justly despise, was enjoyed with surprise and transport by the Roman people.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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He was a tribune (which possibly equates to colonel) in the Roman army during the reign of the Emperor Diocletian.
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Diocletian: he refreshed and reviewed his troops at Pola in Istria, coasted round the head of the Adriatic, entered the port of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Victorinus, bishop of Pettau in Pannonia, who suffered martyrdom under Diocletian in A.D. 303, wrote the earliest extant commentary on the Apocalypse.
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Diocletian towards his friends.] 94 Truncatae vires urbis, imminuto praetoriarum cohortium atque in armis vulgi numero.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Diocletian and Galerius spent most of their time in the East, and Maximian and Constantius policed the western provinces.
Caesars’ Wives
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To further secure the relationship between the co-rulers of the empire, Maximianus placed Constantine in the household of Galerius, the Caesar of co-ruler Diocletian, where he was held hostage in the East as a pledge of his father's good conduct.
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The same happened to Lucy of Syracuse, who was martyred under Diocletian fifty years later.
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When Diocletian divided authority between the tetrarchs, each of them established a capital in a different region of the empire and embellished it with appropriate grandeur.
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After Diocletian, ambitious Christian leaders ruled through the powerful fusion of Roman political, social, and military precedents with symbolism and Christianity.
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Pannonia (called Valeria since the time of Diocletian) before the fall of the Roman Empire.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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In the West, however, Diocletian's system worked for a time, but then fell apart in the face of the barbarian invasions.
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Eusebius's compilation ton archaion martyrion synagoge, containing the Passions of martyrs previous to the persecution of Diocletian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Lequien (II, 621) mentions six bishops of Cyrene, and according to Byzantine legend the first was St. Lucius (Acts, xiii, 1); St. Theodorus suffered martyrdom under Diocletian; about 370 Philo dared to consecrate by himself a bishop for Hydra, and was succeeded by his own nephew, Philo; Rufus sided with Dioscorus at the Robber Synod (Latrocinium) of Ephesus in
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Constantine had witnessed the unusual steadfastness, honesty and duty of the Christians, just as he had seen the horrors of persecution while with Diocletian and Galerius in the East.
Santa Elena, discoverer of the Holy Cross
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It may have been derived from an allegorization of the tyrant Diocletian or Dadianus, who is sometimes called a dragon (ho bythios drakon) in the older text, but despite the researches of Vetter (Reinbot von Durne, pp. lxxv-cix) the origin of the dragon story remains very obscure.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The destruction layer held a coin datable to the reign of Diocletian (A.D.
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The most famous preserved example is the porphyry group of Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Constantius embracing each other, which can now be seen on the southwest corner of the Basilica di San Marco in Venice.
Caesars’ Wives
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A run through the historical record, staring with Tacitus on Nero's blaming the Christians for the Great Fire, then Pliny on his administrative problems in Bithynia, then a long section on Cyprian (who I think gets more coverage than any other non-emperor); then a period of relaxation, which however is abruptly reversed by Diocletian (though that period of persecution seems to be more effective in the East).
Gibbon Chapter XVI
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I once made a German friend hoot with laughter by referring, in English, to the Arch of Diocletian, pronouncing the Emperor's name "die-oh-clee-shun.
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