Diocletian

So yep Warren hit the nail on the head – Diocletian is just an obscure enough reference so you can daydream using his name in way you couldn’t using say Mussolini or Mao (well I guess you could use Mao if you were Anita Dunn)

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I will not call Diocletian a persecutor, for he protected the

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

He alleges that the original writers used what is called the Diocletian Era or the "Era of the Martyrs" as the 'terminus a quo' of their chronological system and, in support of his position, he adduces the fact that this, which was the most ancient of all ecclesiastical eras, was the era used by the schismatics in Britain and that it was introduced by St. Patrick.

Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous

He alleges that the original writers used what is called the Diocletian Era or the “Era of the Martyrs” as the 'terminus a quo' of their chronological system and, in support of his position, he adduces the fact that this, which was the most ancient of all ecclesiastical eras, was the era used by the schismatics in Britain and that it was introduced by St. Patrick.

Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda Anonymous 1914

Thus it will be seen that the so-called Diocletian persecution should be attributed to the influence of Galerius; it continued for seven years after

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

But here now: If I'm a shun for "Diocletian," why aren't I a shum for "consortium"?

National Review Online 2008

The rule of the imperialists, such as Diocletian (who, like Gibbon, would have preferred Julian the Apostate on this account), was, that the great mass of the human population, if permitted to exist at all, must live in dutiful submission to the rule that the ordinary man and woman must not seek to rise above his and her given station, but must adhere to the profession of his father.

LaRouche's Latest 2008

Suidas in Diocletian.] 51 See a short history and confutation of Alchemy, in the works of that philosophical compiler, La Mothe le Vayer, tom.i. p. 32 — 353.]

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Ss. Cosmas and Damian are thought to have been physicians who were martyred in Cyr, Syria, around A.D. 287 during the Diocletian persecutions.

Saints of the Roman Canon - Part 1: The Communicantes 2009

It depicts the moment when the third-century Roman soldier Sebastian, having refused to renounce his Christianity, has been sentenced to death by emperor Diocletian, tied to a tree and shot by archers.

At National Gallery, two paintings by one Dutch master add up to a sublime exhibition 2011