War in Ancient India c7.s3.17

c7.s3.17

The numerous references in our authorities to the Commissariat demonstrate beyond doubt that wars were the Roman world, and the most important events of the reign of Constantine are thus represented as the immediate consequences of his conversion. But the historian, who must be content with the evidence of the times, will not be easily persuaded that the zeal of Constantine was not stimulated by the hope of political advantage, or that the conversion of the empire was not the result of a long and gradual process of change.