“Did you say Caesar Crispus visited Rome?” Somebody extra observant than Marcellinus would have seen the sudden change in Constantine’s voice and method.
“Sure, Augustus, on the best way house to Gaul. All of us have been heartened when he sacrificed to Apollo. You’ve gotten a worthy son to ”
“How lengthy was he there?”
“Virtually every week. The individuals went wild over him and wouldn’t let him go. And now ”
Constantine bought abruptly to his toes. “I’ll discuss to you and the delegation once more tomorrow, Marcellinus,” he stated sharply and this time even the outdated Senator couldn’t fail to spot that one thing was fallacious.
“However Aug”
Constantine left the room earlier than Marcellinus may end what he was saying and didn’t cease till he was in his personal personal quarters and the door was shut. There he poured wine for himself with trembling arms and gulped it down, nearly choking from the strain of anger constricting his throat.
So the treachery had not ended with Licinius, he instructed himself. Now his personal son was working behind his again to construct favor with the individuals of Rome, sacrificing to the outdated gods as a result of he knew it could please them, letting himself be honored and receiving the plaudits of the group. What made issues even worse was Constantine’s realization that with the entire space east of the Alps nearly denuded of veteran troops to construct the military that had defeated Licinius and the Military of Gaul fanatically loyal to him, Crsipus may take Italy and Rome if he wished, as Constantine himself had taken it from Maxentius.
Constantine brooded
Combating for management, and shedding the battle, Constantine brooded over what he thought of the ingratitude of his son till lastly he fell asleep, solely to awaken within the grip of a nightmare by which a gleeful Crispus sacrificed his personal father upon the altar of Apollo. When the daybreak got here, he summoned his magister memoriae and dictated a terse order eradicating Crispus from his place as Caesar of Gaul and Britain and naming his son Constantine II as ruler there though the boy was not but in his teenagers with Eumenius, whose loyalty it didn’t happen to him to doubt, as performing Prefect. This achieved, he despatched a peremptory letter to Fausta at Rome, ordering her to return directly to Nicomedia and produce the kids together with her.
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