CONTENTS AND LIST OF CITATIONS VOLUME I CHAPTER I THE HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW CHAPTER II WESTERN EUROPE BEFORE THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS PACB I. Resemblances between Paganism and Christianity i. Seneca on God's gifts to man 14 De beneficiis, Lib. iv, cc. 5-7, and Lib. i, c. 2 ; ed. Hosius (Teubner, 1900) ; trans.l by Th. Lodge in the Temple Classics Series 2. Epictetus . Dissertationes (or Enchiridion), Book I, Chaps. 30 and 9; trans, from the Greek of Arrian by G. Long in the Bohn Library 3. The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius 17 Book II, Chaps. 1-3 ; trans, from the Greek by G. Long in the Bohn Library 4. Important contrasts between Christianity and paganism 18 LECKY, History of Etiropean Morals, opening of Chap. IV II. The Early Conception of a Universal Church 5. The Catholic Church as conceived by Cyprian ... 19 De catholicae ecclesiae unitate, cc. 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, and 14 : Cor- pus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, III ; trans, by R. E. Wallis in Library of Ante-Nicene Fathers, VIII III. The Church and the Roman Emperors 6. Edict of Galerius (A.D. 311), which first granted toler- ation to the Christians 21 LACTANTIUS, De mortibus fersecutorum, c. 34: Corpus script, eccl. Lat. XXVII, Fas. ii; trans, by William Fletcher in the Library of Ante-Nicene Fathers, XXII 1 While I have freely availed myself of the assistance offered by translations, I have not hesitated to modify, or even frankly desert in some cases, the renderings which I mention in this list. ix
