{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/201/2010418.htm","path":"chr/ecf/201/2010418.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/201/2010418.htm","text":"Chapter XXXIII.\u2014Of the Adulterous Conduct of Maxentius at Rome. 3117\nFor he who had tyrannically possessed himself of the imperial city, 3118 had proceeded to great lengths in impiety and wickedness, so as to venture without hesitation on every vile and impure action.\nFor example: he would separate women from their husbands, and after a time send them back to them again, and these insults he offered not to men of mean or obscure condition, but to those who held the first places in the Roman senate. Moreover, though he shamefully dishonored almost numberless free women, he was unable to satisfy his ungoverned and intemperate desires. But 3119 when he assayed to corrupt Christian women also, he could no longer secure success to his designs, since they chose rather to submit their lives 3120 to death than yield their persons to be defiled by him.\nCompare the Church History, 8. 14.\n491:3118\nMaxentius, made emperor by an uprising of the Pr\u00e6torian Guards in 306.\n491:3119\n\u201cFor\u201d seems to express the author\u2019s real meaning, but both punctuation of editors and renderings of translators insist on \u201cbut.\u201d\n491:3120\nVarious readings of text add \u201clawfully married\u201d women, and send them back again \u201cgrievously dishonored,\u201d and so Bag., but Heinichen has this reading. Compare note of Heinichen.","title":"Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Life ...","type":"page"}