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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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power, and to deliver the administration of the state intostronger hands. He then proclaimed Galerius as Augustus, and MaximinusDaza as the new Caesar. Constantine, who has given an account of the cere-mony, which is quoted by Eusebius in his life of that prince, was present, and thetroops fully expected that he would be the new Caesar; when they heard anothermentioned, they asked each other whether Constantine had changed his name.But Galerius did not leave them long in suspense ; he pushed forward Maximinusand showed him to the assembly, and Diocletian clothed him with the purplevest, after which the old emperor returned privately in his carriage to Nico-media, and immediately after set off for Salona in Dalmatia, near which he builthimself an extensive palace by the sea-shore, in which he lived for the rest of hislife, respected by the other emperors, without cares and without regret. Part of the external walls which inclosed the area belonging to his palace THE VICTIMS OP GALERIUS
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