THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. BY EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ. WITH NOTES BY DEAN MILMAN AND M. GUIZOT. EDITED, WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES, BY WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D. IN EIGHT VOLUMES.-VOL. III. With Portrait and Maps. BOSTON : LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1854. CONTENTS THE MOTIVES, PROGRESS, AND EFFECTS OF THE CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE. LEGAL ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSTITUTION OF THE CHRISTIAN OR CATHOLIC PERSECUTION OF HERESY.-THE SCHISM OF THE DONATISTS.-THE ARIAN CON- TROVERSY.-ATHANASIUS.-DISTRACTED STATE OF THE CHURCH AND EMPIRE JULIAN IS DECLARED EMPEROR BY THE LEGIONS OF GAUL.-HIS MARCH AND SUCCESS. THE DEATH OF CONSTANTIUS.-CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF JULIAN. . 118 and the Guilty 127 128 129 |