Interea Diocletianus in oriente, Maximianus Herculius in occidente, vastari ecclesias, affligi interficique Christianos decimo post Neronem loco praeceperunt: quae persecutio omnibus fere ante actis diuturnior atque inmanior fuit; nam per decem annos, incendiis ecclesiarum, proscriptionibus innocentum, caedibus martyrum incessabiliter acta est.
In the meantime Diocletian in the East, Maximian Herculius in the West, raising the tenth persecution after Nero, commanded the churches to be spoiled, the Christians to be tormented and killed: which persecution was longer and also crueller than well-nigh all which had been before; for by the space of ten years it continued in burning the churches, in outlawry of innocents, in murdering the martyrs and never ceased.
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