But when Constantine came into view, Alanius’s army broke ranks and fled before him. Constantine pursued them with the sword, inflicting a terrible slaughter; some were captured, while others sought quarter.
Alanius himself escaped naked. Station by station he recovered his strength until he reached his own city. There he gathered the priests, magicians, and soothsayers he had favored and trusted, and had them beheaded so that they would not fall into Constantine’s hands.
Allah then poured a fire into Alanius’s belly; the burning tore his entrails apart, he collapsed to the ground, his flesh rotted away upon his bones, and he died.
Constantine thus ruled the world in calm and security. This occurred in the forty-first year of the reign of Shapur son of Hormizd, king of Persia.
He said: Constantine embraced Christianity in a city called Nicomedia, in the twelfth year of his reign. He ordered churches to be built in every land and that funds from the public treasury be allotted for their construction.