Editing Maximinus Daza (section)

==Eusebius on Maximinus==
The Christian writer [[Eusebius]] claims that Maximinus was consumed by avarice and superstition. He also allegedly lived a highly dissolute lifestyle:

<blockquote>And he went to such an excess of folly and drunkenness that his mind was deranged and crazed in his carousals; and he gave commands when intoxicated of which he repented afterward when sober. He suffered no one to surpass him in debauchery and profligacy, but made himself an instructor in wickedness to those about him, both rulers and subjects. He urged on the army to live wantonly in every kind of revelry and intemperance, and encouraged the governors and generals to abuse their subjects with rapacity and covetousness, almost as if they were rulers with him.<br>
Why need we relate the licentious, shameless deeds of the man, or enumerate the multitude with whom he committed adultery? For he could not pass through a city without continually corrupting women and ravishing virgins.<ref>''[[Church History (Eusebius)|Ecclesiastical History]]'', VIII, 14.</ref></blockquote>

According to Eusebius, only Christians resisted him.

<blockquote>For the men endured fire and sword and crucifixion and wild beasts and the depths of the sea, and cutting off of limbs, and burnings, and pricking and digging out of eyes, and mutilations of the entire body, and besides these, hunger and mines and bonds. In all they showed patience in behalf of religion rather than transfer to idols the reverence due to [[God]].
And the women were not less manly than the men in behalf of the teaching of the Divine Word, as they endured conflicts with the men, and bore away equal prizes of virtue. And when they were dragged away for corrupt purposes, they surrendered their lives to death rather than their bodies to impurity.</blockquote>

He refers to one high-born Christian woman who rejected his advances. He exiled her and seized all of her wealth and assets.<ref name="EncSanti">{{Cite web|title=Santa Dorotea di Alessandria su santiebeati.it|url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/39650|access-date=2020-08-05|website=Santiebeati.it}}</ref> Eusebius does not give the girl a name, but [[Tyrannius Rufinus]] calls her "Dorothea," and writes that she fled to [[Arabia]]. This story may have evolved into the legend of [[Dorothea of Alexandria]]. [[Caesar Baronius]] identified the girl in Eusebius' account with [[Catherine of Alexandria]], but the [[Bollandists]] rejected this theory.<ref name=EncSanti/>