Constantine's Sons and Necessaries

Constantine the second was to receive the western provinces, constantius the second, the eastern provinces, constant italy and panonia. One step nephew, a man named dalmatius, was to receive thrace, macedonia and achia. And another, hannibalionus, was have some sort of vague authority over the far eastern borderlands. Had the sons of constantine been paragons of virtue and filled with fraternal love, the arrangement might have worked. But unfortunately, they had all grown up in the shadow of their father,. The emperor spent his entire li ruthlessly despatching members of his own family in order to demolish a carefully arranged power sharing