Chap. XXXV.

This edict was promulgated at Nicomedia on the day preceding the kalends of May,29    30th of April.   in the eighth consulship of Galerius, and the second of Maximin Daia. Then the prison-gates having been thrown open, you, my best beloved Donatus,30    [See p. 301, supra, and p. 316, infra.]   together with the other confessors for the faith, were set at liberty from a jail, which had been your residence for six years. Galerius, however, did not, by publication of this edict, obtain the divine forgiveness. In a few days after he was consumed by the horrible disease that had brought on an universal putrefaction. Dying, he recommended his wife and son to Licinius, and delivered them over into his hands. This event was known at Nicomedia before the end of the month.31    May.   His vicennial anniversary was to have been celebrated on the ensuing kalends of March.32    1st of March following.    

XXXV. Hoc edictum proponitur Nicomediae pridie Kalendas Maias, ipso octies, et Maximino iterum Consulibus. Tunc apertis carceribus, Donate carissime, cum caeteris confessoribus e custodia liberatus es, 0250B cum tibi carcer sex annis pro domicilio fuerit. Nec tamen ille hoc facto veniam sceleris accepit a Deo: sed post dies paucos, commendatis Licinio conjuge sua et filio, atque in manu traditis, cum jam totius corporis membra defluerent, horrenda tabe consumptus est. Idque cognitum Nicomediae Id. mensis 0251A ejusdem, cum futura essent vicennalia Kalendis Martiis impendentibus.