Note 166
From Chapter 21 of the Decline & Fall

See Eusebius, in Vit. Constantin. 1. iii. c. 54-58, and 1. iv. c. 23, 25. These acts of authority may be compared with the suppression of the Bacchanals, and the demolition of the temple of Isis, by the magistrates of Pagan Rome.

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