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being guarded. And these things turned out in this way. 13. But Gallus, having put on the Caesar's purple, and already having begun to step upon the first rungs of imperial power, did not remain of the same mind and loyalty which he had made to Constantius, but was somewhat harsh and unrestrained and implacable in his anger; for having seized upon an inopportune pride and an erratic will, he overstepped the bounds, and treated with contempt the compacts he had made with Constantius, handling matters in a more kingly fashion, and giving orders with much audacity and arrogance. For the officials whom Constantius had sent with him, who were arbiters of both imperial and civil affairs, namely the Praetorian Prefect Domitianus (for Thalassius had died), and Montius, the quaestor, because they did not obey him and minister to his irrational and unrestrained impulses, he commanded soldiers to fasten ropes to their feet, ordered them to be dragged through the marketplace, and killed them both, men who had distinguished themselves in office, and were found to be above all gain and profit; whom the bishop of the city, having prepared for burial, interred, revering their unsurpassed virtue. 14. But Constantius, as soon as he learned what had happened, had Gallus summoned to him. And he, knowing indeed that he was not being summoned for any good, but considering again that if he should not wish to obey, it would be necessary to make war, with arms immediately taken up against Constantius, chose rather the path of peace, and having sent his wife ahead to appease Constantius, he himself went willingly to his peril. Constantina, therefore, set out first to meet her brother, eager to move him to reverence on behalf of her husband, that he might not plot some fatal course against him; but while travelling with great eagerness, she fell ill on the journey, and having entered Bithynia, she died at a certain station of that region called Gallicanus. And Gallus, though he considered this unexpected event that befell him a great misfortune, nevertheless not departing from what had been decided. But when he arrived in Noricum, at their city called Poetovio, the general Barbatio was sent down from Mediolanum, where Constantius happened to be at that time; 96.1265 who stripped Gallus of the purple, and having reduced him to a private citizen, established him in exile on a certain island of Dalmatia. 15. And when Gallus had been taken away to the island, those who had contrived the whole affair against him, and especially Eusebius the eunuch who held the office of praepositus, and those with him, persuaded Constantius to do away with Gallus as quickly as possible. And he, being persuaded, sent those who would kill him; and when they were already arriving, Constantius again was inclined to mercy, and sent by other swift letters to recall Gallus from his fate. But Eusebius and those with him persuaded the messenger, Magistrianus, not to present himself showing the letter, before he had learned that Gallus had been killed. These things happened, and Gallus was dead. But Constantius, fearing for his affairs, lest he alone might not be able to be master of the whole empire, especially since the Gauls were roused to usurpations most sharply and whenever they were so inclined, on account of both their physical strength and fickleness of mind, then regretted having done away with Gallus; and reasoning that a kinsman was by far safer for partnership in the empire than a stranger and a foreigner, having summoned Julian, the brother of Gallus, from Ionia to Mediolanum, he proclaimed him Caesar, and his sister to him

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φυλαττομένη. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν τοῦτον ἔσχε τὸν τρόπον. ιγʹ. Ὁ δὲ Γάλλος τοῦ Καίσαρος ἀμφιασάμενος ἀλουργίδα, καὶ ἤδη τῶν πρώτων τῆς βασιλείας ἀρξάμενος ἐπιβαίνειν ἀναβαθμῶν, οὐκ ἔμενεν ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς γνώμης καὶ πίστεως ἧς πρὸς τὸν Κωνστάντιον ἐποιήσατο, ἀλλὰ βαρύς τις ἦν καὶ ἀκάθεκτος καὶ τὴν ὀργὴν ἀπαραίτητος· φρονήματος γὰρ ἀκαίρου καὶ βουλῆς ἀνωμάλου δραξάμενος, ὑπερέβη τοὺς ὅρους, καὶ τὰς συνθήκας ἐφαύλισεν ἃς πρὸς τὸν Κωνστάντιον ἐποιήσατο, βασιλικώτερον τῶν πραγμάτων ἁπτόμενος, καὶ μετὰ πολλοῦ τοῦ θράσους καὶ τῆς ἀλαζονείας διαταττόμενος. Τοὺς γὰρ ἄρχοντας οὓς σὺν αὐτῷ ἐπεπόμφει Κωνστάντιος, τῶν βασιλικῶν τε καὶ πολιτικῶν πραγμάτων ὄντας διαιτητὰς, τόν τε πραιτωρίων ἔπαρχον ∆ομετιανὸν (ὁ γὰρ Θαλάσσιος ἐτεθνήκει), καὶ τὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ κοιαίστωρος Μόντιον, διὰ τὸ μὴ πειθαρχεῖν αὐτοὺς καὶ ὑπουργεῖν ταῖς παραλόγοις αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀκαθέκτοις ὁρμαῖς, σχοίνους τοῖς στρατιώταις τῶν ποδῶν αὐτῶν ἐξάψασθαι παρακελευσάμενος, ἐπὶ τῆς ἀγορᾶς συρῆναι προσέταξεν, καὶ ἀμφοτέρους ἀπέκτεινεν, ἄνδρας ἐν ἀξιώμασι διαπρέψαντας, καὶ παντὸς κέρδους καὶ λήμματος εὑρεθέντας ὑψηλοτέρους· οὓς ὁ τῆς πόλεως περιστείλας ἐπίσκοπος ἔθαψεν, αἰδεσθεὶς τὸ τῆς ἀρετῆς αὐτῶν ἀνυπέρβλητον. ιδʹ. Ὁ δὲ Κωνστάντιος, ἐπειδὴ τάχιστα ἐπύθετο τὸ συμβὰν, μετάπεμπτον ὡς ἑαυτὸν ἐποιεῖτο τὸν Γάλλον. Ὁ δὲ, εἰδὼς μὲν ὡς οὐκ ἐπ' ἀγαθῷ τυγχάνει καλούμενος, ἐννοῶν δὲ πάλιν ὡς, εἰ μὴ βούλοιτο ὑπακούειν, πόλεμον ἀνάγκη ποιεῖν, ὅπλα πρὸς Κωνστάντιον ἐκ τοῦ εὐθέως ἀράμενον, αἱρεῖται μᾶλλον τὰ τῆς εἰρήνης, καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα προαποστείλας ὡς τὸν Κωνστάντιον ἐκμειλίξασθαι, καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπῄει αὐτόμολος ἐπὶ τὸν κίνδυνον. Ἡ μὲν οὖν Κωνσταντίνα προτέρα ἐξώρμησε προεντυχεῖν τῷ ἀδελφῷ, καὶ αἰδέσασθαι αὐτὸν ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς προθυμουμένη, τοῦ μή τι εἰς αὐτὸν βουλεύσασθαι ἀνήκεστον· πολλῇ δὲ προθυμίᾳ περὶ τὴν ὁδοιπορίαν χρωμένη, εἰς νόσον τε ἔπεσε μεταξὺ πορευομένη, καὶ Βιθυνίας ἐπιβᾶσα, ἐν σταθμῷ τινι ταύτης Γαλλικάνῳ λεγομένῳ ἀπέθανεν. Ὁ δὲ Γάλλος καὶ τοῦτο παράδοξον αὐτῷ συμβὰν μεγάλην συμφορὰν ποιησάμενος, ὅμως τοῖς πρόσω τῶν δεδογμένων οὐκ ἐξιστάμενος. Ἐπεὶ δὲ εἰς Νωρίκους ἀφίκετο πόλιν αὐτῶν Πυταβιῶνα καλουμένην, ἐνταῦθα δὴ ἀπὸ Μεδιολάνου καταπέμπεται στρατηγὸς Βαρβατίων, ἐκεῖ τοῦ Κωνσταντίου τὸ τηνικαῦτα 96.1265 τυγχάνοντος· ὃς τὸν Γάλλον ἀφαιρεῖται τῆς ἁλουργίδος, καὶ εἰς ἰδιώτην μετασκευάσας, ἐξόριστον αὐτὸν εἴς τινα νῆσον τῆς ∆αλματίας κατέστησε. ιεʹ. Τοῦ δὲ Γάλλου εἰς τὴν νῆσον ἀπηγμένου, οἱ τὸ πᾶν ἐπ' αὐτῷ συστήσαντες, Εὐσέβιος δὲ μάλιστα ἦν ὁ εὐνοῦχος ὁ τὴν τοῦ πραιποσίτου τιμὴν ἔχων, καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ, πείθουσι Κωνστάντιον ὡς τάχιστα τὸν Γάλλον ποιήσασθαι ἐκ ποδῶν. Ὁ δὲ πεισθεὶς, πέμπει τοὺς ἀποκτενόντας αὐτόν· καὶ ἤδη τούτων ἀφικνουμένων, πάλιν ὁ Κωνστάντιος εἰς ἔλεον μετεκλίθη, καὶ πέμπει διὰ ταχέων ἑτέρων γραμμάτων τὸν Γάλλον τοῦ πάθους ἀνακαλούμενος. Ὁ δὲ Εὐσέβιος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ πείθουσι τὸν πεμφθέντα Μαγιστριανὸν μὴ πρότερον ἐπιστῆναι δεικνύντα τὸ γράμμα, πρὶν ἂν πύθοιτο τὸν Γάλλον ἀνῃρημένον. Ἐγένετο ταῦτα, καὶ ὁ Γάλλος ἐτεθνήκει. Ὁ δὲ Κωνστάντιος περὶ τοῖς πράγμασι δείσας, μὴ οὐχ οἷός τε ᾖ μόνος ἁπάσης εἶναι τῆς ἀρχῆς ἐγκρατὴς, ἄλλως τε καὶ τῶν Γαλατῶν ὀξύτατα δὴ καὶ ὁπότε προθυμηθεῖεν εἰς τὰς τυραννίδας ἐγειρομένων, διά τε σώματος ἰσχὺν καὶ κουφότητα φρονημάτων, μετέμελε τότε τὸν Γάλλον ὑπεξελών· καὶ λογισάμενος ὡς τὸ συγγενὲς τοῦ ὀθνείου καὶ ἀλλογενοῦς ἀσφαλέστερον εἶναι μακρῷ πρὸς κοινωνίαν τῆς βασιλείας, Ἰουλιανὸν τὸν ἀδελφὸν τοῦ Γάλλου ἐκ τῆς Ἰωνίας μεταπεμψάμενος ἐν τῇ Μεδιολάνῳ, Καίσαρα ἀνέδειξεν, καὶ τὴν ἀδελφὴν αὐτῷ τὴν