Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c42.s2.t5.58
Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c42.s2.t5.58
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v2.c42.s2.t5.58
The prætorians were finally suppressed by Constantine the Great, who, after his victory over Maxentius, demolished their camp, and dispersed the cohorts into the distant frontiers of the empire. This was a wise and necessary measure, which restored the authority of the civil government, and delivered the capital from the tyranny of a licentious soldiery.