an earthquake buried them; and other calamities were allotted to others, and the audacity that had practiced shaming the Lord's words proclaimed, unknown to itself, their unashamed and most venerable nature. 7.10 That many of those who raged against the Christians and piety paid no blameworthy penalty, but most prominently and illustriously Julian, the governor of the East, who was the maternal uncle of the apostate Julian, and Felix, who was entrusted with the treasuries, and Elpidius, who was in charge of the imperial household (whom the Roman language calls comites privatorum); these three were among those who had denied piety to please the emperor. Now Felix, when for no apparent reason one of his largest deep veins burst, both sent forth a stream of blood from his mouth and having become a fearful sight to onlookers did not even last through the whole day, but around late afternoon, as the blood failed, he also lost his life. And Julian, struck by a grievous and inscrutable disease, lay prostrate for forty whole days, neither speaking nor having any consciousness; but having recovered a little somehow, he strongly condemned himself for his lawless audacity and realized that the punishment had burst upon him from there; and having revived enough to become a witness to his own unholy deed, his belly being torn by all kinds of sores, he burst asunder and lost his life. And Elpidius, too, though later than the others, was nevertheless caught collaborating in the tyranny of Procopius, who rebelled against Valens, and being stripped of his wealth and living out his days in prisons, ended his life ingloriously, having become accursed to all and being nicknamed "Elpidius the Sacrificer." And another man, who had entered the church with those mentioned, which they were plundering and whose votive offerings and treasures they were despoiling, insulted the one who was worshiped in them, this man, indeed, pulling up his garment, urinated indecently upon the altar and immediately paid a harsh and swift penalty. for through the members with which he committed the outrage, being putrefied in these parts up to his intestines and breeding an indescribable mass of worms, he ended his life very pitiably and not even worth relating. And indeed, others too who had dared similar things have paid rivaling punishments. 7.11 That the Roman emperor Hadrian, who was surnamed Aelius, renamed Jerusalem Aelia after himself, so that he might entirely remove and separate from it the nation of the Jews and they might not even have the pretext of claiming it as their homeland from its name. for he feared their passionate and reckless nature, lest, gathering in the city on the pretext of worship, they should cause trouble for the Romans. 7.12 That, he says, when the relics of the martyr Babylas were moved, the oracles of the Greeks, beginning with the one at Daphne, gave forth prophecies and oracles, with divine providence allowing them to speak, but turning the zeal of those who looked to them for honor into unspeakable shame. For indeed, from the very means by which the Greek party was zealous to borrow from the demons, so that they might have more reason to deify them, by these same means they were compelled by divine providence to expose their weakness and error; for the oracles from there were recognized to be most manifestly false and unfulfilled. whence also, when all the oracles had prophesied at once, each from its own shrine, that Julian, the emperor's uncle, who was sick, would not die, during the very readings of the oracles he miserably and piteously ended his life. 7.13 That, he says, a certain Heron, hailing from Thebes in Egypt and consecrated as a bishop, then converting to Hellenism, was immediately seized by a putrefying disease and, having consumed his whole body, showed him to be an abomination to all. And he, being destitute on all sides, lay in the streets, drawing no pity at all from anyone, with the Christians shunning him completely, and the Greeks having known him only so far as to subvert him to their error. But Heron bitterly

σεισμὸς ἐχώννυεν· καὶ ἄλλους ἄλλα πάθη κατεμερίζετο, καὶ ἡ καταισχύνειν τὰ δεσποτικὰ λόγια μελετήσασα τόλμα τὸ ἐκείνων ἀκαταίσχυντον καὶ σεβασμιώτατον λέληθεν ἑαυτὴν ἀνακηρύττουσα. 7.10 Ὅτι πολλοὶ μὲν τῶν εἰς τοὺς Χριστιανοὺς καὶ τὴν εὐσέβειαν ἐκμανέντων δίκας ἔτισαν οὐ μεμπτάς, εἰς τὸ περιφανέστατον δὲ καὶ ἐπιφανεῖς Ἰουλιανός τε ὁ τῆς Ἑῴας ἄρχων, θεῖος ὢν κατὰ τὸ μητρῷον γένος τοῦ ἀποστάτου Ἰουλιανοῦ, καὶ Φίληξ ὁ τοὺς θησαυροὺς ἐπιτετραμμένος καὶ Ἐλπίδιος τῆς βασιλικῆς οἰκίας προεστώς (κόμητας πριουάτων ἡ Ῥωμαίων γλῶττα καλεῖ)· οὗτοι δ' οἱ τρεῖς τῶν ἐξαρνησαμένων τὴν εὐσέβειαν εἰς τὸ βασιλεῖ κεχαρισμένον ἦσαν. Ὁ μὲν οὖν Φίληξ, ἐξ οὐδεμιᾶς ἐμφανοῦς αἰτίας τῶν ἐν βάθει φλεβῶν μιᾶς τῆς μεγίστης ἀναρραγείσης, αἵματός τε αὐλὸν ἐξέπεμψεν ἐκ τοῦ στόματος καὶ θέαμα τοῖς ὁρῶσι γενόμενος φοβερὸν οὐδὲ δι' ὅλης ἡμέρας ἤρκεσεν, ἀλλὰ περὶ δείλην ὀψίαν τοῦ αἵματος ἐπιλείποντος καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν συναπέβαλε. Ὁ δέ γε Ἰουλιανὸς ἀργαλέᾳ καὶ δυστεκμάρτῳ βληθεὶς νόσῳ ἐπὶ τεσσαράκοντα τὰς ὅλας ἡμέρας ἀποτάδην ἔκειτο, μήτε φθεγγόμενος μήτε τινὰ συναίσθησιν ἔχων· μικρὸν δέ πως ὑπορραΐσας, πολλὰ μὲν κατεγίνωσκεν ἑαυτὸν τῆς ἀθεμίτου τόλμης καὶ τὴν δίκην ἐκεῖθεν αὐτῷ συναίσθησιν ἔλαβεν καταρραγῆναι· καὶ μέχρι τοῦ μάρτυρα αὐτὸν ἑαυτοῦ τῆς ἀνοσιουργίας γενέσθαι ἀνενεγκών, παντοδαποῖς ἕλκεσι τὴν γαστέρα σπασθείς, συνδιερράγη καὶ τὴν ψυχήν. Καὶ ὁ Ἐλπίδιος δέ, εἰ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων βραδύτερον, ἀλλ' οὖν τῇ τοῦ Προκοπίου τυραννίδι συμπράττων φωραθείς, ὃς ἐπανέστη τῷ Οὐάλεντι, τῶν τε χρημάτων γυμνωθεὶς καὶ εἱρκταῖς καταβιούς, ἀκλεῶς καταστρέφει τὸν βίον, ἐπάρατος πᾶσι γεγονὼς καὶ ὁ θύτης Ἐλπίδιος ἐπονομαζόμενος. Ἄλλος δέ τις συνεισελθὼν τοῖς εἰρημένοις ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, ἣν ἐπόρθουν καὶ ἀπεσύλων τὰ ἀναθήματα καὶ τὰ κειμήλια λαφυραγωγοῦντες τὸν ἐν αὐτοῖς θεραπευόμενον ἐξύβριζον, οὗτος δή, προσανασυράμενος τὴν ἐσθῆτα, τῷ θυσιαστηρίῳ ἐνασελγαίνων ἐναπούρησε καὶ παραυτίκα ποινὴν χαλεπὴν καὶ ὀξεῖαν ἀπέτισεν. δι' ὧν γὰρ ὕβρισεν μορίων, ταῦτα μέχρι τῶν ἐντέρων διασαπεὶς καὶ σκωλήκων ἀδιήγητον χρῆμα τεκνώσας, οἰκτρῶς ἄγαν καὶ οὐδ' ἀφηγήσεως ἀξίως καταστρέφει τὸν βίον. καὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ ἕτεροι παραπλήσια τετολμηκότες ἐφαμίλλους τὰς τιμωρίας δεδώκασιν. 7.11 Ὅτι Ῥωμαίων ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἀδριανός, ὃς Αἴλιος ἐπωνόμαστο,τὰς Ἱεροσόλυμα Αἰλίαν ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ μετεκαλέσατο, ὡς ἂν παντάπασι τὸ Ἰουδαίων αὐτῆς ἔθνος ἀποστήσῃ καὶ ἀπορρήξῃ καὶ μηδ' ἐκ τῆς κλήσεως ὡς πατρίδος αὐτῆς ἀντιποιεῖσθαι πρόφασιν ἔχωσιν. ἐδεδίει γὰρ αὐτῶν τὸ θερμουργὸν καὶ ῥιψοκίνδυνον μή, συναγειρόμενοι κατὰ πρόφασιν ἐν τῇ πόλει λατρείας, πράγματα Ῥωμαίοις παρέξουσιν. 7.12 Ὅτι, φησί, Βαβύλα τοῦ μάρτυρος τῶν λειψάνων μετατεθέντων, τὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων χρηστήρια, τοῦ κατὰ τὴν ∆άφνην ἀρξαμένου, χρησμοὺς ἀνεδίδου καὶ λόγια, τῆς θείας προνοίας φθέγγεσθαι μὲν αὐτοῖς ἐνδιδούσης, τρεπούσης δὲ τὴν εἰς τιμὴν αὐτοῖς ὁρῶσι σπουδὴν εἰς αἰσχύνην ἄφατον. καὶ γὰρ ἐξ ὧν ἐσπούδαζε τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν κιχρᾶν τὰ δαιμόνια, ἵν' ἔχοιεν ἐπὶ μᾶλλον θειάζειν αὐτά, ἐκ τούτων τὸ ἀσθενὲς αὐτῶν καὶ πεπλανημένον διελέγχειν τῇ θείᾳ προνοίᾳ συνηλαύνοντο· ψευδεῖς γὰρ καὶ ἀτέλεστοι κατά γε τὸ περιφανέστατον οἱ ἐκεῖθεν χρησμοὶ ἐγνωρίζοντο. ὅθεν καὶ προθεσπισάντων ἅμα πάντων καθ' ἕκαστον τῶν μαντείων ὡς Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ τοῦ βασιλέως θεῖος νοσῶν οὐ τεθνήξεται, ἐν αὐταῖς ταῖς τῶν χρησμῶν ἀναγνώσεσιν οἰκτρῶς ἐκεῖνος καὶ ἐλεεινῶς τὸν βίον ἀπέρρηξεν. 7.13 Ὅτι, φησί, Ἥρωνά τινα ἐκ Θηβῶν τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ὁρμώμενον καὶ εἰς ἐπισκόπους τελέσαντα, εἶτα πρὸς Ἑλληνισμὸν μεταβαλόντα, παραχρῆμα νόσος σηπεδονώδης ἀπέλαβεν καὶ πᾶν αὐτοῦ καταβοσκηθεῖσα τὸ σῶμα βδέλυγμα πᾶσιν ὑπέδειξεν. ὁ δὲ πανταχόθεν ἀπορούμενος ἐν τοῖς ἀμφόδοις κατέκειτο, μηδ' ὅντινα οὖν μηδαμόθεν ἕλκων ἔλεον, τῶν μὲν Χριστιανῶν παντελῶς αὐτὸν ἐκτρεπομένων, τῶν Ἑλλήνων δὲ μέχρι τοῦ καθυποβαλεῖν αὐτὸν τῇ πλάνῃ μόνον αὐτὸν ἐγνωκότων. ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν Ἥρων πικρῶς