91. The elder Victor describes in a pathetic manner the
miserable condition of Rome: "Cujus stolidum ingenium adeo
P. R. patribusque exitio fuit, uti passim domus, fora, viae,
templaque, cruore, cadaveribusque opplerentur, bustorum
modo." [De Casar. c. 42.] Athanasius (tom. i. p. 677)
deplores the fate of several illustrious victims, and Julian
(Orat. ii. p. 58) execrates the cruelty of Marcellinus, the
implacable enemy of the house of Constantine.