Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire

Glossary

• clementia mercy
• rescript a Roman emperor's response to a legal petition
• Tribunician Power power to protect the people from the aristocrats, though by the late third century it had become a formal title indicating one of the underlying constitutional sources of imperial authority
• Your Dedicatedness … Your Solicitude Maximinus, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, who shared power with Licinius after the death of Galerius