16. A panegyric of Constantine, pronounced seven or eight
months after the edict of Milan (see Gothofred. Chronolog.
Legum, p. 7; and Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, tom. iv. p.
246), uses the following remarkable expression:- "Summe
rerum sator, cujus tot nomina sunt, quot linguas gentium
esse voluisti, quem enim te ipse dici velis scire non
possumus." (Panegyr Vet. ix. [viii.] 26.) In explaining
Constantine's progress in the faith, Mosheim (p. 971, etc.)
is ingenious, subtle, prolix.