Κρίσκος

Name¹ of the son of Constantine the Great. Constantine killed him without trial, though he had already been given the title of Caesar. He came under suspicion of having intercourse with his stepmother Fausta, paying no heed to the law of nature. Since Helena, the mother of Constantine, had a hard time bearing such a disgrace, Constantine consoled her by telling her he had cured the evil with a greater evil; for he had had a bath house completely burned down; having placed Fausta in it he brought her out dead. (It would be interesting to find out whether he did this after he had been baptised.²)