CONSTANTINE MURDERS CRISPUS & FAUSTA
GREEK
TEXT: “...Ὅτι φησὶ τὸν Κωνσταντῖνον
ἀνελεῖν τὸν ἴδιον παῖδα Πρίσκον, διαβολαῖς τῆς μητρυιᾶς συναρπασθέντα·
κἀκείνην δὲ πάλιν φωραθεῖσάν τινι
τῶν Κουρσώρων
μοιχωμένην, τῇ τοῦ λουτροῦ ἀλέᾳ
ἐναποπνιγῆναι προστάξαι. καὶ τῷ παιδίῳ
τοῦ ξίφους διδοῦντα Κωνσταντῖνον τὴν
δίκην μετ' οὐ πολὺν χρόνον ὑπὸ τῶν ἀδελφῶν
φαρμάκοις κατὰ τὴν Νικομήδειαν
διατρίβοντα ἀναιρεθῆναι...” - (Book 2,
Chapter 4, Historia Ecclesiastica (Fragmenta ap. Photium) ΕΚ ΤΩΝ
ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΩΝ ΦΙΛΟΣΤΟΡΓΙΟΥ
ΕΠΙΤΟΜΗ ΑΠΟ
ΦΩΝΗΣ
ΦΩΤΙΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΟΥ.)
PHILOSTORGIUS
(circa. 368-439 C.E.): “...asserts that
Constantine was induced by the fraudulent artifices of his
step-mother to put his son Crispus to death;{18} and afterwards, upon
detecting her in the act of adultery with one of his Cursores,
ordered the former to be suffocated in a hot bath. He adds, that long
afterwards Constantine was poisoned by his brothers during his stay
at Nicomedia, by way of atonement for the violent death of
Crispus...” - (Book 2, Chapter 4, EPITOME OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL
HISTORY OF PHILOSTORGIUS, COMPILED BY PHOTIUS, PATRIARCH OF
CONSTANTINOPLE. TRANSLATED
BY EDWARD WALFORD, M. A. LATE SCHOLAR OF BALLIOL
COLLEGE, OXFORD. London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden.
1855.)
[FOOTNOTE
18]: p. 435 n. 1 Compare the account given in Aurelius Victor,
chap. 41, Ammianus Marcellinus, book xiv. 6, and others, who state
that Crispus and Fausta were put to death by Constantine. It is to be
observed, however, that Eusebius, in his Life of Constantine, and
Socrates, in his History, make no mention of the fact, which is
entirely discredited by Sozomen (Eccl. Hist. b. i. ch. 5) and
Evagrius (Eccl. Hist. b iii. ch. 40, 41). Vales.
PHILOSTORGIUS
(circa. 368-439 C.E.): “...Constantine, he says, did away with
his own son Priscus after being taken in by his stepmother's slander.
She in turn was caught in adultery with a cursor [“courier”], and
he ordered her suffocated in the heat of the bath. Constantine not
long afterwards paid the penalty for executing the boy when he was
poisoned to death by his brothers while staying in Nicodemia{9}...”
- (Page 17, Book 2, Chapter 4, WRITINGS OF THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD,
“Philostorgius: Church History,” Translated
with an Introduction and Notes by Philip R. Amidon,
S.J. 2007.)
[FOOTNOTE
9]: Aurelius Victor 41.11; Eutropius 10.6.3; Epit. Caes. 41.11-12;
Zosimus 2.29.2
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