CHAPTER XLIV

OF HELENA’S GENEROSITY, AND BENEFICENT ACTS

FOR on the occasion of a circuit which she made of the eastern provinces, with circumstances of royal splendour, she bestowed abundant proofs of her liberality as well on the inhabitants of the several cities collectively, as on individuals who approached her, at the same time that she scattered largesses among the soldiery with a liberal hand. But especially abundant were the gifts she bestowed on the naked and friendless poor. To some she gave money, to others an ample supply of clothing: she liberated some from imprisonment, or from the bitter servitude of the mines; others she delivered from unjust oppression, and others again, she restored from exile to their native land.