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to be immediately delivered from the disease, and for the subsequent time of his life to be prolonged for no small number of years. Constantius, at any rate, first built the church of the Apostles, although Justinian later constructed it on a more magnificent scale, and with better materials made it more brilliant and ornate. And now the church is where the bodies of the apostles lie, called by the common name of the Apostles. 19. The great Artemius, therefore, proceeded to Egypt, having assumed the dignity of dux; while Constantius, setting out from Constantinople, made his way towards Syria, and reaching the great city of Antioch, encamped there, preparing for the war against the Persians. While he was spending time in the city and equipping his army, letters arrived to him reporting the revolt of Julian. For Julian, as has been 96.1269 shown by me before, when I was making my account concerning these things, having been appointed Caesar by Constantius for the protection of the western regions in Gaul, not enduring to remain any longer in the position of Caesar, put on the diadem and laid hold of the greater imperial power. And when he had taken control of affairs, he no longer contemplated anything small, nor did he think it right to delay; but wishing for the time being to bring all of Europe that is subject to the Romans under his own power, he set out with his army through the lands of the Germans towards the Ister, and taking possession of the further bank, he marched through the regions there; eluding both prefects, the one of the Italies, called Taurus, and the one of the Illyrians, Florentius. And when he was in Paeonia, crossing to the other side of the river, he immediately had under his control all the land of Illyria, and the Italies, and all the nations as far as the western ocean, as many as were of the Roman dominion. 20. But Constantius, learning these things from the letters, was troubled, as was likely, and fearing especially for Constantinople lest Julian should get there first, as he himself intended, and bring it under his own power, he therefore hurried as much as possible to anticipate him. And while his army, which was scattered among the cities of the East, was being assembled, and was about to be equipped for so great a journey, he signified to the bishops to arrive at Nicaea as quickly as possible; for he was planning to convene a second synod there, being urged on by the impious Arians against the homoousion. But when, having passed through Cilicia, he arrived at the so-called springs of Mopsus, a certain illness suddenly befell him, and he was no longer able to proceed further. And when he perceived that he was already in a bad way and would not survive, he quickly sent for the bishop of Antioch, Euzoius, and permitted him to baptize him; and having been baptized and surviving for a short while, he departed this life on the spot, having reigned for a total of forty years, half of them with his father, and the rest alone. And the army, lamenting him and performing the customary rites over him, placed him in a coffin, having prepared the corpse with the usual things to preserve it, and placing it on a carriage, they conveyed it to Constantinople, each following him with their own weapons, and in the same order in which they happened to be arranged under their leaders while he was alive. 21. While these men were leading the corpse towards Constantinople, Julian met them, having arrived from the Illyrian regions, and now holding the entire empire securely, since no one dared to oppose him after the death of Constantius. And as the corpse was being conveyed to the church of the Apostles, where they were about to lay him beside his father, he himself led the bier, having removed the diadem from his head. And when they had buried him, to the palace now

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παραυτίκα ἀπαλλαγῆναι τῆς νόσου, καὶ εἰς τὸν ἔπειτα τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ χρόνον παρελκυσθέντα ἐπ' οὐκ ὀλίγων ἐτῶν ἀριθμόν. Τὸν γοῦν τῶν Ἀποστόλων νεὼν Κωνστάντιος ᾠκοδόμησε πρότερον, κἂν ὕστερον Ἰουστινιανὸς ἐπὶ τὸ μεγαλειότερον κατεσκεύασε, καὶ κρείττοσιν ὕλαις ἐπὶ τὸ κοσμιώτερον κατεφαίδρυνε. Καὶ ἔστιν νῦν ὁ νεὼς ἔνθα κεῖται τῶν ἀποστόλων τὰ σώματα, κοινῷ ὀνόματι τῶν Ἀποστόλων ἐπικαλούμενος. ιθʹ. Ὁ μὲν οὖν μέγας Ἀρτέμιος ἐπὶ τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἐπορεύετο, τὴν τοῦ δουκὸς ἀξίαν ἀμφιασάμενος· ὁ δὲ Κωνστάντιος ἄρας ἀπὸ τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, τὴν ἐπὶ τῆς Συρίας ἐποιεῖτο ὁδὸν, καὶ φθάσας τὴν μεγαλόπολιν Ἀντιόχειαν, αὐτοῦ κατασκηνοῖ, τὸν πρὸς τοὺς Πέρσας ἑτοιμαζόμενος πόλεμον. Αὐτοῦ δὲ χρονοτριβήσαντος ἐν τῇ πόλει καὶ τὸν στρατὸν ἐξαρτύοντος, ἀφίκετο γράμματα πρὸς αὐτὸν δηλοῦντα τὴν τοῦ Ἰουλιανοῦ ἐπανάστασιν. Ὁ γὰρ Ἰουλιανὸς, ὡς δε 96.1269 δήλωταί μοι καὶ πρόσθεν, ἡνίκα τὸν περὶ τούτων ἐποιούμην λόγον, ἐπὶ φυλακῇ τῶν Ἑσπερίων εἰς τὰς Γαλλίας ὑπὸ τοῦ Κωνσταντίου Καῖσαρ ἀποδειχθεὶς, αὐτὸς ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἐν τῷ τοῦ Καίσαρος σχήματι εἶναι μὴ ἀνασχόμενος, τό τε διάδημα περιτίθεται, καὶ τῆς μείζονος ἀνθάπτεται βασιλείας. Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀντελάβετο τῶν πραγμάτων, οὐκέτι μικρὸν οὐδὲν ἐνενόει, οὐδὲ διαμέλλειν ἐγίγνωσκε δεῖν· ἀλλὰ τὴν Εὐρώπην τέως ὑφ' ἑαυτῷ ποιήσασθαι πᾶσαν ἐθέλων ὁπόση Ῥωμαίοις ὑπακούει, τῷ στρατῷ συνταξάμενος διὰ Γερμανῶν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἴστρον ἐχώρει, καὶ τῆς πέραν ὄχθης λαβόμενος, διὰ τῶν ἐκείνης χωρίων ἤλαυνεν· ἀμφοτέρους τοὺς ὑπάρχους διαλαθὼν, τόν τε τῶν Ἰταλιῶν Ταῦρον οὕτω καλούμενον καὶ τὸν Ἰλλυριῶν Φλορέντιον. Ἐπεὶ δὲ κατὰ Παίονας ἐγένετο, διαβὰς ἐπὶ θάτερα τὸν ποταμὸν, αὐτίκα τήν τε Ἰλλυρίδα πᾶσαν ὑφ' ἑαυτῷ γῆν εἶχε, καὶ τὰς Ἰταλίας, καὶ τὰ μέχρι τοῦ ἑσπερίου ὠκεανοῦ σύμπαντα ἔθνη ὁπόσα τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἐπικρατήσεως ἦν. κʹ. Ὁ δὲ Κωνστάντιος ταῦτα διὰ τῶν γραμμάτων μαθὼν, ἐταράχθη τε ὥσπερ καὶ εἰκὸς ἦν, καὶ περὶ τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως μάλιστα δείσας μὴ, ὅπερ κἀκεῖνος διενοεῖτο φθάσειεν, αὐτὴν ὑφ' ἑαυτὸν ποιησάμενος, ἠπείγετο οὖν κατὰ τὸ δυνατὸν προκαταλαβεῖν. Ἐν ὅσῳ δὲ ὁ στρατὸς αὐτῷ συνελέγετο κατὰ τὰς πόλεις τῆς Ἑώας ἐσκεδασμένος, καὶ ἔμελλεν ἐξαρτύεσθαι ὡς πρὸς τοσαύτην ὁδὸν, σημαίνει τοῖς ἐπισκόποις εἰς τὴν Νίκαιαν αὐτὸν ὡς ὅτι τάχιστα φθῆναι προαφικομένους· ἐμελέτα γὰρ δευτέραν ἐν αὐτῇ συγκροτῆσαι σύνοδον, παρὰ τῶν δυσσεβῶν Ἀρειανῶν κατὰ τοῦ ὁμοουσίου παροτρυνόμενος. Ἐπεὶ δὲ τὴν Κιλικίαν διεξελθὼν εἰς τὰς Μόψου καλουμένας κρήνας ἀφίκετο, ἀσθένειά τις αὐτῷ ἐξαπιναίως προσέπεσχε, καὶ οὐχ οἷός τε ἦν ἔτι τὸ πρόσω χωρεῖν. Ὡς δὲ ᾔσθετο φαύλως ἔχων ἤδη καὶ οὐκ ἂν βιωσόμενος, τὴν ταχίστην τὸν Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπον μεταπέμπεται Εὐζώϊον, καὶ αὐτῷ βαπτίσαι αὐτὸν ἐπιτρέπει· βαπτισάμενος δὲ καὶ μικρὸν ἐπιβιοὺς, αὐτόθι προλείπει τὸ ζῇν, βασιλεύσας τὰ σύμπαντα ἔτη τεσσαράκοντα, τὰ μὲν ἡμίσεα μετὰ τοῦ πατρὸς, τὰ δὲ ἐπίλοιπα μόνος. Αὐτὸν δὲ ἡ στρατεία ὀλοφυραμένη, καὶ τὰ νομιζόμενα ἐπ' αὐτῷ τελέσασα, λάρνακι τοῦτον ἐνέθεσαν, τοῖς εἰωθόσιν εἰς τὸ διαρκέσαι σκευάσαντες τὸν νεκρὸν, καὶ εἰς ἁρμαμάξαν ἐνθέμενοι, ἐκόμιζον ἐπὶ τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν, σὺν τοῖς οἰκείοις ἕκαστοι ὅπλοις αὐτῷ ἐφεπόμενοι, καὶ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν κόσμον ὅνπερ καὶ ζῶντος ὑπὸ τοῖς ἡγεμόσι τεταγμένοι ἐτύγχανον. καʹ. Οὗτοι μὲν διὰ τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν εἶχον ἄγοντες τὸν νεκρὸν, καὶ Ἰουλιανὸς συνομάρτησεν ἐκ τῶν Ἰλλυριῶν ἀφικόμενος, καὶ ἤδη βεβαίως ἔχων τὴν πᾶσαν βασιλείαν, οὐδενὸς αὐτὸν μετὰ τὸν Κωνσταντίου θάνατον ἐναντιωθῆναι τολμήσαντος. Κομιζομένου δὲ τοῦ νεκροῦ ἐπὶ τῷ νεῷ τῶν Ἀποστόλων, ἵνα περ αὐτὸν καταθήσειν πλησίον τοῦ πατρὸς ἔμελλον, αὐτὸς ἡγεῖτο τῆς κλίνης, τὸ διάδημα τῆς κεφαλῆς περιελών. Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἔθαψαν αὐτὸν, ἐπὶ τὰ βασίλεια ἤδη