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a paraphrase, and Gregory, the great in theology, into the composition of epic poems, so that the young, by learning these instead of the Greek classics, might both become proficient in the Greek language and be taught the meters. He also permitted the Jews to build the temple in Jerusalem. And when they had begun the construction with great zeal and at great expense and were attempting to dig the earth for the laying of foundations, fire is said to have suddenly sprung up from the excavations and burned the diggers, so that they were forced to desist from the construction. He killed Eusebius the eunuch for having contrived the murder of his brother Gallus, and he expelled all the other eunuchs from the palace. And once, as the apostate was passing through the region of Chalcedon, its bishop, Maris, called him an avenging spirit and a denier of Christ. But he, pretending forbearance, said, "Go away, you wretch, 63 and weep for the loss of your eyes" (for he was suffering this from a cataract). But he retorted, "I thank my Savior Christ that he has provided for me not to see your shameless and most impious face." And having set his army in motion against the Persians, he arrived at Tarsus, a famous city of Cilicia; when he was there, Artemius, the priest of Asclepius, approached him—for in Aegae (this too is a city of Cilicia) there was a famous temple of Asclepius—and asked him that the columns, which the high priest of the Christian people had happened to take from this temple and had built with them their own church, be restored again to the temple of Asclepius. And the apostate immediately ordered this to be done at the expense of the bishop. So with difficulty the Greeks, and with much labor and very great expense, having taken down one of the columns and having brought it with machines as far as the doorpost of the gate of the church, were for a long time unable to move it any further; and leaving it behind, they departed. But when Julian had died, the bishop, setting it upright again, very easily brought it back to its own place. 64 And when Julian came to Antioch and was continually going forth to the place of Daphne, in which was established the statue of Apollo, a certain work marvelous in its art, and was making sacrifices to it, the Antiochenes, mocking him, said that a sacrificer and not an emperor had visited them. And because he had a long beard, the same people called him a goat and said it was suitable for rope-making. But he, mocking them in return for their stupidity and effeminacy and delicacy, said he would not offer his beard to the Antiochenes for rope-making, lest their hands be chafed by its roughness. Against whom he also wrote an oration, which is entitled Antiochene or Beard-Hater. And he was sacrificing whole hecatombs to the Daphnian Apollo, seeking an oracle from him. But since that idol was mute, the temple-keepers, when asked the reason for its silence, said the statue was silent because of the dead bodies lying there. For there were lying there the relics of both other martyrs and of the hieromartyr Babylas. Therefore Julian ordered all of them to be moved from there. But when they were moved, a thunderbolt, striking 65 Daphne by night, burned both the temple and the statue to ashes. Thinking, therefore, that the fire had happened through the plot of Christians, that avenging spirit, having been driven mad, closed the churches of the faithful. By him also the great Artemius was punished as a Christian, but the charge of the murder of Gallus was brought against him; and the presbyters Eugenius and Macarius, having been punished by him, were deemed worthy of the martyrs' crowns; and those sent to him from Persia on account of an embassy, Manuel, Sabel, and Ismael, and many others. And having campaigned against the Persians, at first he was successful and took some cities and killed many and seized much booty and captives and was besieging Ctesiphon. Then suddenly his affairs having turned for the worse, both he and the greater part of his army perished. For the Persians, having given up hope, were planning to thrust themselves into manifest destruction, in order to accomplish something against the Romans

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παράφρασιν καὶ ὁ μέγας ἐν θεολογίᾳ Γρηγόριος εἰς τὴν ποίησιν τῶν ἐπῶν, ἵν' ἀντὶ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν μαθημάτων ταῦτα οἱ νέοι μανθάνοντες τήν τε γλῶσσαν ἐξελληνίζωνται καὶ τὰ μέτρα διδάσκωνται. Οὗτος καὶ τὸν ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἀνεγεῖραι ναὸν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις ἐπέτρεψε. κἀκείνων σπουδῇ πολλῇ καὶ μεγάλαις δαπάναις τῆς οἰκοδομῆς ἀρξαμένων καὶ ὀρύττειν τὴν γῆν εἰς καταβολὴν θεμελίων ἐπιχειρούντων πῦρ λέγεται τῶν ὀρυγμάτων ἀθρόον ἀναδιδόμενον καταφλέγειν τοὺς σκάπτοντας, ὡς ἀναγκασθῆναι αὐτοὺς τῆς οἰκοδομῆς ἀποσχέσθαι. Εὐσέβιον δὲ τὸν εὐνοῦχον ὡς τὸν φόνον τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ Γάλλου κατεργασάμενον ἔκτεινε καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους πάντας εὐνούχους τοῦ παλατίου ἐξήλασε. διιόντα δέ ποτε τὸν παραβάτην περὶ Χαλκηδόνα ὁ ταύτης ἐπίσκοπος Μάρις ἀλάστορα καὶ ἀρνησίχριστον ἐκάλει. ὁ δὲ τὸ ἀνεξίκακον προσποιούμενος "ἄπιθι" εἶπε "ταλαίπωρε 63 καὶ ἀποκλαίου σου τῶν ὀμμάτων τὴν πήρωσιν" (ἦν γὰρ πάσχων ταύτην ἐξ ἐπιχύσεως). ὁ δὲ "εὐχαριστῶ τῷ σωτῆρί μου Χριστῷ" ἀντεπήνεγκεν, "ὅτι μου προεμηθεύσατο μὴ ἰδεῖν τὸ ἀναιδές σου καὶ ἀσεβέστατον πρόσωπον." Κατὰ Περσῶν δὲ τὴν στρατιὰν κινήσας κατήντησεν εἰς Ταρσὸν τῆς Κιλικίας πόλιν ἐπιφανῆ· ἔνθα γενομένῳ Ἀρτέμιος προσῆλθεν ὁ τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ ἱερεύς-ἦν γὰρ ἐν Αἰγαῖς (πόλις δὲ καὶ αὗται τῆς Κιλικίας) περίφημον Ἀσκληπιοῦ ἱερόν- καὶ ᾔτησεν αὐτὸν τοὺς κίονας, οὓς ἔτυχεν ἀφελόμενος ἐκ τούτου τοῦ ἱεροῦ ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς τοῦ λαοῦ τῶν χριστιανῶν καὶ ἐποικοδομήσας αὐτοῖς οἰκεῖον ναόν, ἀποκαταστῆναι αὖθις τῷ ἱερῷ τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ. καὶ ὁ παραβάτης αὐτίκα τοῦτο γενέσθαι προσέταξε δαπάναις τοῦ ἐπισκόπου. μόλις οὖν οἱ Ἕλληνες καὶ πόνοις πολλοῖς καὶ ἀναλώμασι πλείστοις ἕνα τῶν κιόνων καθελόντες καὶ μέχρι τῆς φλιᾶς τῆς πύλης τῆς ἐκκλησίας σὺν μηχανήμασιν ἀγαγόντες, καὶ χρόνῳ συχνῷ περαιτέρω προενεγκεῖν ἐκεῖνον οὐκ ἠδυνήθησαν· καὶ καταλιπόντες αὐτὸν ἀνεχώρησαν. τοῦ δὲ Ἰουλιανοῦ θανόντος αὖθις αὐτὸν ὁ ἐπίσκοπος ἀνορθώσας ῥᾷστα εἰς τὸν τόπον τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ἐπανήγαγε. 64 Γενομένου δὲ τοῦ Ἰουλιανοῦ εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν καὶ συνεχῶς προϊόντος εἰς τὸ τῆς ∆άφνης χωρίον, ἐν ᾧ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος ἄγαλμα, ἔργον τι πρὸς τέχνην θαυμάσιον, ἵδρυτο, καὶ θυσίας αὐτῷ ποιοῦντος, οἱ Ἀντιοχεῖς ἀποσκώπτοντες εἰς αὐτὸν θύτην ἔλεγον καὶ οὐ βασιλέα σφίσιν ἐπιδημῆσαι. καὶ διὰ τὸ καθειμένον ἔχειν ἐκεῖνον τὸν πώγωνα τράγον αὐτὸν ὠνόμαζον οἱ αὐτοὶ καὶ πρὸς σχοίνων πλοκὴν ἔλεγον αὐτὸν ἐπιτήδειον. ὁ δὲ ἀντεπισκώπτων αὐτοῖς εἰς βλακείαν καὶ θρύψιν καὶ τρυφερότητα ἔλεγε μὴ παρέχειν τοῖς Ἀντιοχεῦσι τὸν πώγωνα εἰς σχοίνων πλοκήν, ἵνα μὴ τῇ τούτου τραχύτητι θλιβεῖεν αἱ χεῖρες αὐτῶν· πρὸς οὓς καὶ λόγον ἔγραψεν, ὃς ἐπιγέγραπται Ἀντιοχικὸς ἢ Μισοπώγων. ἔθυε δὲ τῷ ∆αφναίῳ Ἀπόλλωνι ἑκατόμβας ὅλας, χρησμὸν ζητῶν ἐξ αὐτοῦ. ὡς δ' ἦν τὸ εἴδωλον ἐκεῖνο κωφόν, οἱ νεωκόροι τὴν αἰτίαν τῆς σιωπῆς ἀπαιτούμενοι διὰ τοὺς κειμένους ἐκεῖ νεκροὺς σιωπᾶν τὸ ἄγαλμα ἔλεγον. ἦσαν γὰρ ἐκεῖ ἑτέρων τε μαρτύρων κείμενα λείψανα καὶ τοῦ ἱερομάρτυρος δὲ Βαβύλα. πάντα τοίνυν μετατεθῆναι ἐκεῖθεν προσέταξεν Ἰουλιανός. ὡς δὲ μετηνέχθησαν, σκηπτὸς ἐνσκήψας 65 νυκτὸς τῇ ∆άφνῃ καὶ τὸν ναὸν καὶ τὸ ἄγαλμα ἀπετέφρωσεν. οἰηθεὶς οὖν ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆς χριστιανῶν γενέσθαι τὸν ἐμπρησμὸν ὁ ἀλάστωρ ἐκεῖνος καὶ ἐκμανεὶς τὰς τῶν πιστῶν ἐκκλησίας ἀπέκλεισεν. ὑπ' αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁ μέγας Ἀρτέμιος ἐκολάσθη μὲν ὡς χριστιανός, ἐπήνεκτο δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ τοῦ Γάλλου φόνος αἰτίαμα, καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι Εὐγένιος καὶ Μακάριος ὑπὸ τούτου κολασθέντες τῶν μαρτυρικῶν στεφάνων κατηξιώθησαν, καὶ οἱ ἐκ Περσίδος πρὸς αὐτὸν σταλέντες πρεσβείας χάριν Μανουήλ, Σαβὲλ καὶ Ἰσμαὴλ καὶ πολλοὶ ἄλλοι. Στρατεύσας δὲ κατὰ Περσῶν πρότερον μὲν εὐτύχησε καὶ πόλεις εἷλέ τινας καὶ πολλοὺς ἀνεῖλε καὶ λείας πολλῆς καὶ αἰχμαλώτων ἐκράτησε καὶ Κτησιφῶντα ἐπολιόρκει. εἶτ' ἀθρόον τῶν πραγμάτων αὐτῷ εἰς τὸ χεῖρον περιτραπέντων αὐτός τε καὶ τοῦ στρατεύματος τὸ πλέον ἀπώλετο. οἱ γὰρ Πέρσαι ἀπογνόντες καὶ εἰς ὄλεθρον ἑαυτοὺς εἰσωθεῖν προφανῆ ἐβουλεύοντο, ἵνα τι κατεργάσωνται τοὺς Ῥωμαίους