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An Illyrian of low birth (he was born probably near Salona, Dalmatia, today modern Croatia), Diocles[4] rose through the ranks of the army. It is known that he was Dux Moesiae, with responsibility for defending the lower Danube. When, in 282, the legions of the upper Danube proclaimed the Praetorian prefect Carusas Emperor, Diocles started gaining the new emperor's trust, obtaining the consulship in 283 and the rank of Comes domesticorum, that is commander of the cavalry arm of the imperial bodyguard.
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born February 27, after AD 280?, Naissus, Moesia.
died May 22, 337, Ancyrona, near Nicomedia, Bithynia [now Izmit, Turkey]
Constantine I, colossal marble head, c. AD 325.
The Granger Collection, New York
byname Constantine the Great , Latin in full Flavius Valerius Constantinus the first Roman emperor to profess Christianity. He not only initiated the evolution of the empire into a Christian state but also provided the impulse for a distinctively Christian culture that prepared the way for the growth of Byzantine and Western medieval...