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De mortibus persecutorum
Also known as On the Deaths of the Persecutors
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Lactantius' account of the Great Persecution and the dreadful ends of persecuting emperors, with a text of the 313 Milan letter.
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De mortibus persecutorum is a hybrid historical and Christian apologetical work by the Roman philosopher Lactantius, written in Latin sometime after AD 316.
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- Of the Manner In Which the Persecutors Died · New Advent FathersPublic-domain translation; site edition copyright Kevin Knight. Link, do not mirror.
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