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THE body of the emperor was placed in a coffin of gold by the proper
persons, and then conveyed to Constantinople, where it was laid out
on an elevated bed of state in the palace, surrounded by a guard, and
treated with the same respect as when he was alive, and this was done
until the arrival of one of his sons. When Constantius was come out
of the eastern parts of the empire, it was honored with an imperial
sepulture, and deposited in the church called The Apostles: which he
had caused to be constructed for this very purpose, that the emperors
and prelates might receive a degree of veneration but little inferior to
that which was paid to the relics of the apostles. The Emperor
Constantine lived sixty-five years, and reigned thirty-one. He
died in the consulate of Felician and Tartan, on the twenty-second
of May, in the second year of the 278th Olympiad. This book,
therefore, embraces a period of thirty-one years.
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