4. Lactantius de Mort. Persecutor. c. 18. Were the
particulars of this conference more consistent with truth
and decency, we might still ask how they came to the
knowledge of an obscure rhetorician? But there are many
historians who put us in mind of the admirable saying of the
great Conde to Cardinal de Retz: "Ces coquins nous font
parler et agir comme ils auroient fait eux-memes a norte
place."