76. The conversion of the barbarians under the reign of
Constantine is celebrated by the ecclesiastical historians
(see Sozomen, l. ii. c. 6, and Theodoret, 1. i. c. 23, 24).
But Rufinus, the Latin translator of Eusebius, deserves to
be considered as an original authority. His information was
curiously collected from one of the companions of the
Apostle of Aethiopia, and from Bacurius, an Iberian prince,
who was count of the domestics. Father Mamachi has given an
ample compilation on the progress of Christianity, in the
first and second volumes of his great but imperfect work.