47. See in the Panegyrics (ix. 14) a lively description of
the indolence and vain pride of Maxentius. In another place
[ib. c. 3] the orator observes that the riches which Rome
had accumulated in a period of 1060 years were lavished by
the tyrant on his mercenary bands; redemptis ad civile
latrocinium manibus ingesserat.