id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4104 Constantius II - Wikipedia .html text/html 7668 996 64 In early 337, Constantius hurried to Constantinople after receiving news that his father was near death.[7] After Constantine died, Constantius buried him with lavish ceremony in the Church of the Holy Apostles.[8] Soon after his father's death Constantius supposedly ordered a massacre of his relatives descended from the second marriage of his paternal grandfather Constantius Chlorus, though the details are unclear.[9][10] Eutropius, writing between 350 and 370, states that Constantius merely sanctioned "the act, rather than commanding it".[11] The massacre killed two of Constantius' uncles and six of his cousins,[12] including Hannibalianus and Dalmatius, rulers of Pontus and Moesia respectively. As the only surviving son of Constantine the Great, Constantius felt that the position of emperor was his alone,[22] and he determined to march west to fight the usurper, Magnentius. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4104.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4104.txt