and they sent Marinus. The letter complained of the ordination of Aetius, as having been performed contrary to rule, especially because after his deposition from the diaconate, those who had deposed him not having rescinded their decision, he, being dragged down from there, nevertheless leapt up to a higher rank; and indeed it also condemned the ordinations of those around Candidus as innovations contrary to the common opinion, and indeed the other ones which the party of Aetius had performed. And Eudoxius, having received the letter gladly, took no account of the oaths he had sworn to Eunomius, nor of the letters to Euzoius, nor of his many and varied promises; but he wrote back to the party of Theodosius, urging them to action, and rather suggesting they proceed against those who had conferred the ordinations than against those who had received them. 8.5 That the emperor Jovian restores the churches to their former order, having freed them from all the injury which the apostate had brought upon them. And he also recalls those whom that man had exiled for not abandoning their piety; among these was also Valentinian, being brought back from Thebes in Egypt. 8.6 That, he says, the party of Candidus and Arrianus, being kinsmen of the emperor, came to him in Edessa and stood in the way of Athanasius, who was eager to reconcile the emperor to himself; but the emperor, having referred the statements of each party to a common arbitration, for the time being gave no obvious advantage to either. 8.7 That Eudoxius writes to Euzoius against Candidus and Arrianus. And he was vexed, and taking Elpidius with him, he wrote back, both blaming the advice and in return advising that man to rather abstain from such an opinion; and at the same time he gently blamed the long delay of what had been agreed with Eunomius on behalf of Aetius. 8.8 That the emperor Jovian, setting out for Constantinople and having arrived in Ancyra, proclaims one of his own sons, Varronianus, who was very young, Most Noble (which among the Romans means *nobilissimus*). And from there, with a very severe winter pressing on, he proceeds forward with the army. And many perish on the way, but he with the survivors reaches Dadastana. And having lodged at a certain station and partaken of food, he lies down to sleep in a certain room that had been newly plastered. And when a fire was lit so that warmth would be generated in the room, a dampness was given off from the newly-plastered walls; and gently entering through his nostrils and blocking his respiratory passages and suffocating him, it kills the emperor, who had completed nearly ten months in his reign. But his dead body is brought to Constantinople; and the army, having arrived at Nicaea, after twelve days had passed, proclaims Valentinian emperor, with Datianus the patrician from Galatia having suggested the counsel by letter (for he had been left behind there on account of both his old age and the severity of the winter), and with Secundus the prefect and Arinthaeus the general and Glaïphus (he commanded the domestics) also taking part in the affair. And when the army, during the very proclamation, as the emperor was being carried on the shield, demanded that he take a partner in the empire, with his hand he bid them be silent, and quietly and with an imperial spirit he said: "To make me emperor from a private citizen, your vote had the authority; but from that point on, to consider and arrange what must be done is not the judgment of the ruled, but of the ruler." And having entered Constantinople, he makes his brother Valens a partner in the empire; and taking him along as far as Sirmium, he sets out for the West. And in Sirmium, having divided with him the things of the empire, as many as contributed to the state and the rest of the administration, he sends the one to Constantinople, having entrusted to him the portion of the East which Constantius had ruled; but he himself, having taken the remaining two parts in the West, ruled over the whole of the West. and not long after, his son Gratian

καὶ Μάριν διαπέμπονται. Τὸ δὲ γράμμα τήν τε χειροτονίαν Ἀετίῳ ἐπεκάλει ὡς παρὰ θεσμὸν γεγενημένην μάλιστά γε καὶ ὅτι μετὰ τὴν καθαίρεσιν τῆς διακονίας, τῶν καθελόντων αὐτὸν οὐ λυσαμένων τὴν ψῆφον, ὁ δὲ καθελκόμενος ἐκεῖθεν ὅμως καὶ πρὸς βαθμὸν ἀνεπήδησε μείζονα· καὶ μὴν καὶ τὰς περὶ Κάνδιδον χειροτονίας ἀπεδοκίμαζεν ὡς παρὰ τὴν κοινὴν νεωτερισθείσας γνώμην, ἀλλὰ γὰρ καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἃς οἱ περὶ Ἀέτιον ἐτελέσαντο. ∆εξάμενος δὲ τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἄσμενος ὁ Εὐδόξιος, τῶν μὲν ὅρκων οὓς Εὐνομίῳ ὀμώμοστο καὶ τῶν πρὸς Εὐζώϊον γραμμάτων καὶ τῶν πολλῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ ποικίλων ὑποσχέσεων, τούτων οὐδὲν ἐπὶ νοῦν ἐλάμβανεν· ἀντιγράφει δὲ πρὸς τοὺς περὶ Θεοδόσιον, ἐποτρύνων αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν πρᾶξιν, μᾶλλον δ' ὑποτιθέμενος χωρεῖν κατὰ τῶν παρασχόντων ἢ τῶν δεξαμένων τὰς χειροτονίας. 8.5 Ὅτι ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἰωβιανὸς εἰς τὸν ἀρχαῖον κόσμον ἀποκαθίστησι τὰς ἐκκλησίας, πάσης αὐτὰς ἀπαλλάξας ἐπηρείας ὅσην αὐταῖς ὁ ἀποστάτης ἐπήνεγκεν. ἀνακαλεῖται δὲ καὶ οὓς ἐκεῖνος τῆς εὐσεβείας οὐ μεθιεμένους ἐφυγάδευσεν· τούτων καὶ Οὐαλεντινιανὸς ἦν, ἀπὸ Θηβῶν τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἀνακομιζόμενος. 8.6 Ὅτι, φησίν, οἱ περὶ Κάνδιδον καὶ Ἀρριανόν, προσγενεῖς ὄντες τῷ βασιλεῖ, πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐν Ἐδέσῃ παραγίνονται καὶ τῷ Ἀθανασίῳ ἐξοικειώσασθαι τὸν βασιλέα σπουδάζοντι ἐμποδὼν ἵστανται· πλὴν ὅ γε βασιλεύς, εἰς δίαιταν κοινὴν τὰ παρ' ἑκατέρου μέρους λεγόμενα ἀναθέμενος, ῥοπὴν οὐδετέροις τέως παρέσχεν ἐπίδηλον. 8.7 Ὅτι Εὐδόξιος κατὰ Κανδίδου καὶ Ἀρριανοῦ πρὸς Εὐζώϊον γράφει. ὁ δὲ ἠχθέσθη μέν, συμπαραλαβὼν δὲ καὶ Ἐλπίδιον ἀντιγράφει, μεμφόμενός τε τὴν συμβουλήν, ἀποσχέσθαι δὲ κἀκεῖνον μᾶλλον ἀντιπαραινῶν τῆς τοιαύτης γνώμης· ἐν ταὐτῷ δ' ἠρέμα πως ἐπῃτιᾶτο τὴν μακρὰν ἀναβολὴν τῶν διομολογηθέντων ὑπὲρ Ἀετίου Εὐνομίῳ. 8.8 Ὅτι Ἰωβιανὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς πρὸς τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν ἀπαίρων καὶ γεγονὼς ἐν Ἀγκύρᾳ θάτερον τῶν ἑαυτοῦ παίδων Οὐαρονιανόν, κομιδῇ νέον ὄντα, ἐπιφανέστατον (ὃ παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις τὸν νωβελλίσιμον δύναται) ἀναγορεύει. ἐκεῖθεν δὲ σφοδροτάτου χειμῶνος ἐπικειμένου σὺν τῷ στρατῷ χωρεῖ ἐπὶ τὰ πρόσω. καὶ πολλοὶ μὲν κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν διαφθείρονται, αὐτὸς δὲ μετὰ τοὺς ὑπολειφθέντας καταλαμβάνει τὰ ∆αδάστανα. ἔν τινι δὲ καταλύσας σταθμῷ καὶ τροφῆς μετασχών, ἐν οἰκήματί τινι ἄρτι κεκονιαμένῳ κατακλίνεται πρὸς ὕπνον. πυρὸς δ' ἀναφθέντος ὥστε ἀλέαν ἐγγενέσθαι τῷ οἰκήματι, νοτὶς μὲν τῶν νεοχρίστων τοίχων ἀνεδίδοτο· ἠρέμα δὲ διὰ τῶν ῥινῶν παραδυομένη καὶ τοὺς ἀναπνευστικοὺς πόρους ἐπιφράττουσα καὶ ἀποπνίγουσα διαφθείρει τὸν βασιλέα, διανύσαντα ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ μῆνας ἐγγὺς δέκα. Ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν τούτου νεκρὸς εἰς τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν ἄγεται· ὁ δὲ στρατὸς κατὰ Νίκαιαν γεγονώς, ἡμερῶν διαγενομένων δώδεκα, τὸν Οὐαλεντινιανὸν ἀναγορεύει βασιλέα, ∆ατιανοῦ μὲν τοῦ πατρικίου ἐκ Γαλατίας τὴν βουλὴν γράμμασιν εἰσηγησαμένου (ἐν αὐτῇ γὰρ διά τε γῆρας καὶ τὸ τοῦ χειμῶνος ὑπελέλειπτο μέγεθος), συνεφαψαμένου δὲ τῇ πράξει Σεκούνδου τε τοῦ ἐπάρχου καὶ Ἀρινθαίου τοῦ στρατηγοῦ καὶ Γλαΐφου (τῶν δομεστίκων οὗτος ἡγεῖτο). Τοῦ δὲ στρατοῦ κατ' αὐτὴν τὴν ἀναγόρευσιν ἐπὶ τῆς ἀσπίδος ἐποχούμενον τὸν βασιλέα Προσλαβεῖν κοινωνὸν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν ἀξιοῦντος, τῇ χειρὶ μὲν σιγᾶν αὐτοὺς ἐπιτρέπει, ἀτρέμα δὲ καὶ βασιλικῷ τῷ φρονήματι ἔφη· «βασιλέα μὲν ἐμὲ ποιεῖν ἐξ ἰδιώτου ἡ ὑμετέρα ψῆφος τὸ κῦρος ἐπεῖχεν· ἐκεῖθεν δὲ τὸ πρακτέον σκοπεῖν καὶ διευθετεῖν οὐχὶ τῶν βασιλευομένων, τοῦ δὲ βασιλεύοντος ἡ κρίσις ὑπάρχει.» Ἐπιβὰς δὲ τῇ Κωνσταντινουπόλει, κοινωνὸν μὲν τῆς βασιλείας τὸ ἀδελφὸν Οὐάλεντα ποιεῖται· συμπαραλαβὼν δ' αὐτὸν μέχρι Σερμίου, ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑσπέραν ἀπαίρει. ἐν δὲ τῷ Σερμίῳ τὰ τῆς βασιλείας πρὸς αὐτὸν διανειμάμενος ὁπόσα εἰς κόσμον καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἐτέλει θεραπείαν, τὸν μὲν εἰς Κωνσταντινούπολιν ἀποπέμπει, τῆς Ἑῴας μοῖραν ἐγχειρίσας ὅσης ὁ Κωνστάντιος ἐπῆρχεν· αὐτὸς δὲ τὰς λοιπὰς δύο τὰς κατὰ ∆ύσιν ἀποκληρωσάμενος τῆς Ἑσπέρας ἐβασίλευε πάσης. μετ' οὐ πολὺ δὲ παῖδα Γρατιανὸν