Huius loco Constantinus ex infima militia, propter solam spem nominis sine merito virtutis eligitur: qui continuo ut invasit imperium in Gallias transiit; ibi saepe a barbaris incertis foederibus inlusus detrimento magis reipublicae fuit: unde mox iubente Honorio Constantius comes in Galliam cum exercitu profectus, apud Arelatem civitatem eum clausit, cepit, occidit: Constantemque filium eius quem ex monacho Caesarem fecerat, Gerontius comes suus apud Viennam interfecit.
In his place Constantine, being but a common soldier, was chosen, only for the sake of the hope given by his name without any desert of merit: which, so soon as he had usurped the empire, passed over into the Gauls; where being oft deluded by the barbarous nations, as uncertainly making his league with them, very greatly endomaged the commonwealth: whereupon, Honorius sending count Constantius into Gaul with an army, Constantine was besieged at Arles and there taken and slain: and Constans his son, whom of a monk he had made Caesar, was slain at Vienne by Gerontius, his own officer.
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