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Definition of Constantine the Great
1. Noun. Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337).
Generic synonyms: Emperor Of Rome, Roman Emperor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constantine The Great
Literary usage of Constantine the Great
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"True also that Constantine the Great knew no Greek and that Justinian's accent
was bad. These superficialities of name and form cannot alter the fact that ..."
2. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1904)
"It tells how Constantine the Great, cured of his leprosy by the prayers • of Pope
Sylvester, resolved, on the fourth day from his baptism, to forsake the ..."
3. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"Constantine the Great, 312-337.—• After a few years of joint rule, the two emperors
quarreled, and a new civil war made Constantine sole master. ..."
4. The World's Orators: Comprising the Great Orations of the World's History by Guy Carleton Lee (1900)
"... Constantine the Great Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, was born in
274 AD at Naissus in ..."
5. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity by William Linn Westermann (1984)
"SLAVERY UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO Constantine the Great SOURCES AND NUMBERS OF
SLAVES After the reorganization of the Roman state and the establishment of ..."
6. The History of Nations by Henry Cabot Lodge (1906)
"Chapter XVIII Constantine the Great AND THE SUPREMACY OF CONSTANTINOPLE. 324-361
CONSTANTINE well deserved the title of " Great" which has been affixed to ..."
7. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Constantia, princess, granddaughter of Constantine the Great, is carried by her
mother to the camp of the usurper Procopius, ii. 633. ..."
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