71. Zosimus, the enemy of Constantine, allows (1. ii. [c.
17] p. 88) that only a few of the friends of Maxentius were
put to death; but we may remark the expressive passage of
Nazarius (Panegyr. Vet. x; 6): Omnibus qui labefactari
statum ejus poterant cum stirpe deletis. The other orator
(Panegyr. Vet. ix. 20, 21) contents himself with observing
that Constantine, when he entered Rome, did not initiate the
cruel massacres of Cinna, of Marius, or of Sylla.