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Updated: May 16, 2025

During the long period of the reign of Constantius, the provinces of the East were afflicted by the calamities of the Persian war.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

Constantius also sent an embassy to the Homeritse on the opposite coast of Arabia, under Theophilus, a monk and deacon in the Church. The Homerito were of Jewish blood though of gentile faith, and were readily converted, if not to Christianity, at least to friendship with the emperor.

A. S. (Angelo Solomon) Rappoport - History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12)

During the partial reigns of Constantius and Valens, the feeble remnant of the Homoousians was deprived of the public and private exercise of their religion; and it has been observed, in pathetic language, that the scattered flock was left without a shepherd to wander on the mountains, or to be devoured by rapacious wolves.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

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The prince of the East, as if he had been conscious how much he had to fear, and how little he deserved to reign, selected for the objects of his resentment the provincials accused of some imaginary treason, and his own courtiers, whom with more reason he suspected of incensing, by their secret correspondence, the timid and suspicious mind of Constantius.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

Tragic Deaths Of Constantine The Younger And Constans. Usurpation Of Magnentius. Civil War. Victory Of Constantius. The character of the prince who removed the seat of empire, and introduced such important changes into the civil and religious constitution of his country, has fixed the attention, and divided the opinions, of mankind.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

Whilst his hours were passed in studious retirement, the empress, resolute to achieve the generous design which she had undertaken, was not unmindful of the care of his fortune. The death of the late Cæsar had left Constantius invested with the sole command, and oppressed by the accumulated weight, of a mighty empire.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

The town surrendered after an obstinate defence; and a considerable part of the naval strength of Carausius fell into the hands of the besiegers. During the three years which Constantius employed in preparing a fleet adequate to the conquest of Britain, he secured the coast of Gaul, invaded the country of the Franks, and deprived the usurper of the assistance of those powerful allies.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1

Each new victory in Gaul had maddened the soul of Constantius, and smitten his vanity to the quick. He writhed with jealousy, and grew thin and sleepless and sick. At the same time he sustained defeat after defeat in his own campaign in Asia against the Persians. Musing, during nights of insomnia, the emperor blamed himself for having let Julian live.

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As soon as Diocletian and Maximian had resigned the purple, their station, according to the rules of the new constitution, was filled by the two Cæsars, Constantius and Galerius, who immediately assumed the title of Augustus.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1