, and four thousand three hundred and eighty-three large palatial
residences.

(M1142) After the building of this new and beautiful city, Constantine
devoted himself to the internal regulation of the empire, which he divided
into four prefectures, subdivided into thirteen dioceses, each governed by
vicars or vice-prefects, who were styled counts and dukes. The provinces
were subdivided to the number of one hundred and sixteen. Three of these
were governed by proconsuls, thirty-seven by consuls, five by correctors,
and seventy-one by presidents, chosen from the legal profession, and
called _clarissimi_. The prefecture of the East embraced the Asiatic
provinces, together with Egypt, Thrace, and the lower Moesia; that of
Illyricum contained the countries between the Danube, the AEgean, and the
Adriatic; that of Italy extended over the Alps to the Danube; and that of
the Gauls embraced the western provinces beyond the Rhine and the Alps.

(M1143) The military power was separated from the civil. There were two
master-generals, one of infantry, and the other of cavalry, afterward
increased to eight, under whom were thirty-five commanders, ten of whom
were counts, and twenty dukes. The legions were reduced from six thousand
to fifteen hundred men. Their number was one hundred and thirty-two, and
the complete force of the empire was six hundred and forty-five thousand,
holding five hundred and eighty-three permanent stations.

(M1144) The ministers of the palace, who exercised different functions
about the presence of the emperor, were seven in number: the prefect of
the bed-chamber; a eunuch, who waited on the emperor; the master of
offices--the supreme magistrate of the palace; the quaestor--at the head of
the judicial administration, and who composed the orations and edicts of
the emperor; the treasurer, and two counts of domestics, who commanded the
body-guard.

(M1145) The bishopric nearly corresponded with the civil divisions of the
empire, and the bishops had different ranks. We now observe archbishops
and metropolitans.

The new divisions complicated the machinery of government, and led to the
institution of many new offices, which greatly added to the expense of
government, for which taxation became more rigorous and oppressive. The
old constitution was completely subverted, and the emperor became an
Oriental monarch.

(M1146) Constantine was called away from his labors of organization to
resist the ambition of S