18. The choice of Constantine by his dying father, which is
warranted by reason, and insinuated by Eumenius, seems to be
confirmed by the most unexceptionable authority, the
concurring evidence of Lactantius (de M. P. c. 24) and of
Libanius (Oratio i ), of Eusebius (in Vit. Constantin. 1. i.
C. 21) and of Julian (Oratio i. [p. 7])