CHAPTER XLVI

VICTORIES OVER THE BARBARIANS

THUS the emperor in all his actions honoured God the Controller of all things, and exercised an unwearied oversight over His churches. And God requited him, by subduing all barbarous nations under his feet, so that he was able every where to raise trophies over his enemies: and He proclaimed his name as conqueror to all mankind, and made him a terror to his adversaries: not indeed that this was his natural character, since he was rather the meekest, and gentlest, and most benevolent of men.