125. Euseb. 1. vii. c. 30. Lactantius de M. P. c. 6.
Hieronym. in Chron. p. 177 [Anno ab. Abr. 2290, tom, viii.
p. 757, ed. Vallars.]. Orosius, 1. vii. c. 23. Their
language is in general so ambiguous and incorrect, that we
are at a loss to determine how far Aurelian had carried his
intentions before he was assassinated. Most of the moderns
(except Dodwell, Dissertat. Cyprian. xi. 64) have seized the
occasion of gaining a few extraordinary martyrs.