Constantine's Sons and Constantinople's Father

There is another version o all this that depicts constantius as merely allowing the massacre to happen, rather than ordering it himself. The palace troops detested theodora's side of the family so much that they were just itching to murder them all. But given every other paranoid and ruthless thing he did with his life,. I am not at all opposed to laying blame squarely at the young prince's doorstep. It is in perfect keeping with all constantius later tendencies. His two brothers, for their part, did not seem at all concerned about the massacre. And when the three of them met a few months later in sermium, they did not engage in any hand ringing over the murders.