only in matters concerning God was he zealous and beloved, even if he inclined towards the Arian heresy, having been driven to it by the impious and most godless Eusebius, the bishop of Nicomedia; since in other respects he was moderate and most especially careful of decorum and utterly possessed of self-control both concerning his diet and his other way of life, and he showed the greatest zeal for the churches, being ambitious to surpass his own father by far in his eagerness concerning these things. And he built the greatest church in the city of his father, near the senate house, beginning the work from below and from the foundations. And honoring his father's tomb, he built a very great temple there as a place of worship; and having brought Andrew the apostle from Achaia, as I said before, he transferred him there; and indeed he also transferred Luke the evangelist from the same Achaia and Timothy from Ephesus of Ionia. 3.22α-26a Artemii Passio 10 unmittelbar nach στησάμενος ob. S. 30, 28: Not much time passed and Constans, giving himself over to revels and drunken bouts and strange pastimes of love, idly gambled away the whole empire, dancing away the greatness of his kingdom; therefore he himself is also plotted against by one of the generals, Magnentius, and along with his kingdom he also loses his life. When he had fallen, Magnentius holds power, with whom Nepotianus and Vetranio took part in the tyranny. § 11 Having learned these things from his sister's letters, Constantius, departing from the East and coming to the West, joins battle against both and conquers them by force, with Vetranio having defected to him; at which time also the sign of the cross, very great and terribly manifest in its entirety, so as to outshine the light of day with the stunning nature of its splendor, was seen over Jerusalem at about the third hour of the day, when the feast called Pentecost was at hand, extending from the place called Skull even to the Mount of Olives, from where the Savior had made his ascension. Therefore Constantius holds the entire empire, having been left as the only one of the sons of Constantine the Great. § 12 Therefore, having gazed upon the greatness of his power and grown dizzy, since he was a man and did not have one from his family to be his shield-bearer (for he had no son, nor had any of his brothers been left), and fearing lest some tyrant might rise up against him again, rising against his rule, he considers taking one of his relatives as a co-heir and shield-bearer of the empire. which indeed he also did, appointing Gallus, the brother of Julian, as Caesar. Gallus was his paternal cousin; for Constantius, the father of Gallus and Julian, was the brother of Constantine the Great. Therefore, having designated him in Sirmium, he both yokes to him as wife his own sister Constantia, for the sake of trust and security, and gives him rulers he himself had appointed (for it was not permitted to him, being a Caesar), sending Thalassius as praetorian prefect, and Montius over the royal affairs, whom they are accustomed to name quaestors, at the same time also having made him a patrician. 3.28α Artemii Passio 12 unmittelbar nach αὐτὸν ποιησάμενος ob. S. 52, 33: But he

μόνον τὰ πρὸς θεὸν σπουδαῖός τε καὶ ἐράσμιος ὑπῆρχεν, εἰ καὶ πρὸς τὴν Ἀρειανικὴν ἀπέκλινεν αἵρεσιν, ὑπὸ τοῦ δυσσεβοῦς τε καὶ ἀθεωτάτου Εὐσεβίου τοῦ τῆς Νικομηδείας ἐπισκόπου συνελαθείς· ἐπεὶ τά γε ἄλλα μέτριος καὶ εὐσχημοσύνης ἐς τὰ μάλιστα ἐπιμελούμενος καὶ σωφροσύνης ἄκρως ἐπειλημμένος περί τε τὴν δίαιταν καὶ τὸν ἄλλον τρόπον, καὶ πλείστην γε τὴν εἰς τὰς ἐκκλησίας ἐποιεῖτο σπουδὴν μακρῷ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ πατέρα ταῖς περὶ ταῦτα προθυμίαις ὑπερβάλλεσθαι φιλοτιμούμενος. καὶ τήν τε ἐκκλησίαν ἐδείματο τὴν μεγίστην ἐν τῇ πόλει τοῦ πατρὸς πλησίον τῆς γερουσίας, κάτωθεν τοῦ ἔργου καὶ ἐκ κρηπίδων ἀρξάμενος. καὶ τὸν τοῦ πατρὸς τάφον τιμῶν, νεὼν ἐξῳκοδομήσατο μέγιστον ἐκεῖ θρησκευτήριον· καὶ Ἀνδρέαν τὸν ἀπόστολον ἐκ τῆς Ἀχαΐας μετενεγκών, ὡς προέφην, ἐκεῖ μετέθηκεν· καὶ μὴν καὶ Λουκᾶν τὸν εὐαγγελιστὴν ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς μετέθηκεν Ἀχαΐας καὶ Τιμόθεον ἐξ Ἐφέσου τῆς Ἰωνίας. 3.22α-26a Artemii Passio 10 unmittelbar nach στησάμενος ob. S. 30, 28: Οὐ πολὺς ἐν μέσῳ καιρὸς καὶ ὁ Κώνστας, εἰς κώμους καὶ μέθας ἐναποκλίνας καὶ ἀλλοκότους ἐρώτων διαγωγάς, ῥαθύμως τὴν ὅλην ἀρχὴν διεπέττευε, τὸ τῆς βασιλείας μέγεθος ἐξορχούμενος· ἐπιβουλεύεται τοιγαροῦν καὶ αὐτὸς παρά τινος τῶν στρατηγῶν Μαγνεντίου καὶ μετὰ τῆς βασιλείας προσαπόλλυσι καὶ τὸ ζῆν. τούτου πεσόντος, κρατεῖ τῆς ἀρχῆς ὁ Μαγνέντιος, μεθ' οὗ τῆς τυραννίδος συνεπελάβοντο Νεποτιανὸς καὶ Βρεττανίων. § 11 ταῦτα μαθὼν ὁ Κωνστάντιος ἐκ τῶν τῆς ἀδελφῆς γραμμάτων, ἀπάρας ἐκ τῆς Ἀνατολῆς καὶ πρὸς τὴν Ἑσπέραν γενόμενος, συνάπτει πρὸς ἀμφοτέρους πόλεμον καὶ κατὰ κράτος νικᾷ, τοῦ Βρεττανίωνος πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀποκλίναντος· ὅτε καὶ τὸ τοῦ σταυροῦ σημεῖον, μέγιστόν τε καὶ δεινῶς ἐκφανὲν ἅπαν ὡς ὑπεραστράπτειν τῷ καταπληκτικῷ τῆς αἴγλης τὸ τῆς ἡμέρας φῶς, ἐπὶ τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων ὤφθη περὶ τρίτην ὥραν μάλιστα τῆς ἡμέρας, τῆς ἑορτῆς τῆς λεγομένης Πεντηκοστῆς ἐνεστηκυίας, διῆκον ἀπὸ τοῦ Κρανίου λεγομένου τόπου ἄχρι καὶ τοῦ Ἐλαιῶνος ὄρους, ὅθεν ὑπῆρχεν ὁ σωτὴρ τὴν ἀνάληψιν ποιησάμενος. Κρατεῖ τοίνυν τῆς βασιλείας ἁπάσης Κωνστάντιος, τῶν τοῦ μεγάλου Κωνσταντίνου υἱῶν μόνος ὑπολειφθείς. § 12 ἀτενίσας οὖν πρὸς τὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς μέγεθος καὶ εἰλιγγιάσας, ὡς ἅτε δὴ ἄνθρωπος ὢν καὶ μὴ ἔχων τὸν ἐκ τοῦ γένους αὐτῷ συνασπίζοντα (οὔτε γὰρ αὐτῷ παῖς ἐγεγόνει, οὔτε τις τῶν ἀδελφῶν κατελέλειπτο), καὶ δείσας μή τις αὐτῷ πάλιν ἐπανασταίη τύραννος κατὰ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἐξανιστάμενος, σκέπτεται τῶν συγγενῶν τινα λαβεῖν σύγκληρον καὶ τῆς βασιλείας ὑπασπιστήν. ὃ δὴ καὶ πεποίηκε Γάλλον τὸν Ἰουλιανοῦ ἀδελφὸν Καίσαρα προστησάμενος. ἀνεψιὸς δὲ πρὸς πατρὸς ὁ Γάλλος ἦν αὐτῷ· Κωνστάντιος γάρ, ὁ Γάλλου καὶ Ἰουλιανοῦ πατήρ, ἀδελφὸς ἦν Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ μεγάλου. τοῦτον οὖν ἐν τῷ Σιρμίῳ προχειρισάμενος, γυναῖκά τε αὐτῷ ζεύγνυσι τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀδελφὴν Κωνσταντίαν, πίστεως καὶ βεβαιότητος χάριν, καὶ ἄρχοντας αὐτῷ δίδωσιν αὐτὸς καταστήσας (οὐ γὰρ ἐκείνῳ γε ἐφεῖτο, Καίσαρί γε ὄντι), Θαλάσσιον μὲν ἀποστείλας ἔπαρχον πραιτωρίων, Μόντιον δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν βασιλικῶν πραγμάτων οὓς κοιαίστωρας αὐτοῖς ὀνομάζειν φίλον, ἅμα καὶ πατρίκιον αὐτὸν ποιησάμενος. 3.28α Artemii Passio 12 unmittelbar nach αὐτὸν ποιησάμενος ob. S. 52, 33: Ὁ δὲ