Lactantius gives the text of the edict in De Mortibus Persecutorum ( ` On the Deaths of the Persecutors ' , chapters 34 , 35 ) . Lactantius gives the text of the edict in his moralized chronicle of the bad ends to which all the persecutors came , De Mortibus Persecutorum ( `` On the Deaths of the Persecutors '' , chapters 34 , 35 ) .