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                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.minervina_1</requestUrn>
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                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.minervina_1</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="M"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="minervina-bio-1" n="minervina_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Minervi'na</surname></persName></head><p>the mother of <hi rend="smallcaps">CRISPUS</hi>
      <hi rend="smallcaps">CAESAR</hi>, is usually termed by historians the first wife of
      Constantine the Great. However, Victor (<hi rend="ital">Epit.</hi> 41) and Zosimus (2.20),
      both of whom mention her name, state expressly that she was his concubine, and their account
      is confirmed by Zonaras (<bibl n="Zonar. 13.2">13.2</bibl>). To this direct testimony we can
      oppose nothing, except the improbability that Constantine should have marked out an
      illegitimate son as his successor. (Tillemont, <hi rend="ital">Hist. des Empereurs,</hi> vol.
      iv. art. iv. p. 84, and <hi rend="ital">Notes sur Constantin,</hi> note v.). </p><byline>[<ref target="author.W.R">W.R</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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