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hostile to the advantages of their adversaries, forced by the greatness of the deeds. At this time Constantius, learning that Julian, whom he had appointed Caesar of Europe, was aspiring to greater things and was raising an army against the one who had honored him, departed from Syria, and ended his life in Cilicia. For he did not have the helper whom his father had left to him, not having kept the inheritance of his father's piety inviolate. For which reason indeed he bitterly lamented the change of faith. 175 The chapters of the third book 1. Concerning the reign of Julian. 2. That having been brought up in piety from childhood, he strayed into impiety. 3. How at first concealing his impiety, he later laid it bare. 4. Concerning the return of the bishops. 5. Concerning the ordination of Paulinus. 6. That not acting out of humanity but moved by envy, he did not openly destroy the pious. 7. How many and what kind of things the Hellenes dared against the Christians, having received authority from him. 8. What laws he enacted against the Christians. 9. Concerning the fourth exile and flight of the holy Athanasius. 10. The events concerning the temple of Apollo at Daphne and the holy Babylas. 11. Concerning Theodore the confessor. 12. Concerning the confiscation of the sacred treasures and the removal of the grain allowances. 13. The events concerning Julian his uncle. 14. Concerning the son of the priest. 15. Concerning Joventinus and Maximinus the martyrs. 176 16. Concerning Valentinian who later reigned. 17. Concerning the other confessors. 18. Concerning Artemius the dux. 19. Concerning Publia the deaconess and her boldness in God. 20. The events concerning the Jews and the attempt at building, and the divinely-sent plagues brought upon them. 21. Concerning the campaign against the Persians. 22. Concerning the boldness of the magistrate of Beroea. 23. Concerning the prophecy of the pedagogue. 24. Concerning the prophecy of the holy Julian the monk. 25. Concerning the slaughter of Julian the emperor which happened in Persia. 26. Concerning the sorcery discovered in Carrhae after his death. 27. Concerning the heads found in the palace of Antioch. 28. Concerning the public dance that happened in Antioch.

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Constantius indeed, groaning and lamenting, departed this life because he had been turned aside from his paternal faith; but Julian, crossing from Europe into Asia, learned of the death of Constantius and, taking courage as having no rival, took possession of the empire. He, while yet young with his brother Gallus and still a boy, drew the milk of pious teaching, and indeed having become an adolescent and a youth he partook of the same; but fearing Constantius (for he was destroying his relatives, fearing usurpations) he was counted worthy of the order of readers and used to read the sacred books to the people in the church assemblies. And he did build a shrine of martyrs, but the martyrs did not accept it, foreseeing his deviation into impiety; for the foundations, imitating the instability of his mind, collapsed before it was consecrated. Such then were the events of his first and second age. But when Constantius departed for the West (for the war against Magnentius drew him there) and appointed 178 Gallus Caesar of the East, who was both pious and remained so to the end, Julian scattered the salutary fear from his soul, and taking courage as he ought not to have, he desired the imperial scepters. For which reason indeed, roaming through Greece, he sought out soothsayers and oracle-mongers, longing to learn if he would obtain what he desired. And he fell in with a man who promised to foretell these things, who this man into one of the idolatrous shrines

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δυσμενεῖς τὰ τῶν ἀντι πάλων πλεονεκτήματα, ὑπὸ τοῦ μεγέθους τῶν πραττομένων ἀ ναγκαζόμενοι. Κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον ὁ Κωνστάντιος πυθόμενος ὡς Ἰουλι ανός, ὃν τῆς Εὐρώπης ἀπέφηνε Καίσαρα, μειζόνων πραγμάτων ἐφί εται καὶ κατὰ τοῦ τετιμηκότος στρατιὰν συναγείρει, ἀπὸ μὲν τῆς Συρίας ἀπῆρεν, ἐν δὲ τῇ Κιλικίᾳ τὸν βίον κατέλυσεν. οὐ γὰρ εἶχεν ἐπίκουρον ὃν ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῷ καταλέλοιπε, τῆς πατρῴας εὐσεβείας ἄσυλον οὐ φυλάξας τὸν κλῆρον. οὗ δὴ εἵνεκα πικρῶς ὠλοφύρετο τῆς πίστεως τὴν μετάθεσιν. 175 Τὰ κεφάλαια τοῦ γʹ λόγου αʹ. Περὶ τῆς Ἰουλιανοῦ βασιλείας. βʹ. Ὅτι παιδόθεν ἐν εὐσεβείᾳ τραφεὶς ἐξώκειλεν εἰς ἀσέβειαν. γʹ. Ὅπως τὰ πρῶτα τὴν ἀσέβειαν κρύπτων ὕστερον ταύτην ἐγύ μνωσεν. δʹ. Περὶ τῆς ἐπανόδου τῶν ἐπισκόπων. εʹ. Περὶ τῆς Παυλίνου χειροτονίας. ʹ. Ὅτι οὐ φιλανθρωπίᾳ χρώμενος ἀλλὰ φθόνῳ βαλλόμενος προφανῶς τοὺς εὐσεβεῖς οὐκ ἀνῄρει. ζʹ. Ὁπόσα καὶ ὁποῖα κατὰ τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἐτόλμησαν Ἕλληνες παρ' αὐτοῦ λαβόντες τὴν ἐξουσίαν. ηʹ. Τίνα κατὰ τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἐνομοθέτησεν. θʹ. Περὶ τῆς τετάρτης ἐξορίας τοῦ ἁγίου Ἀθανασίου καὶ φυγῆς. ιʹ. Τὰ κατὰ τὸ Ἀπολλώνιον τὸ ἐν ∆άφνῃ καὶ τὸν ἅγιον Βαβυλᾶν. ιαʹ. Περὶ Θεοδώρου τοῦ ὁμολογητοῦ. ιβʹ. Περὶ τῆς δημεύσεως τῶν ἱερῶν κειμηλίων καὶ τῆς τῶν σιτηρεσίων ἀφαιρέσεως. ιγʹ. Τὰ κατὰ Ἰουλιανὸν τὸν θεῖον αὐτοῦ. ιδʹ. Περὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἱερέως. ιεʹ. Περὶ Ἰοβεντίνου καὶ Μαξιμίνου τῶν μαρτύρων. 176 ιʹ. Περὶ Βαλεντινιανοῦ τοῦ ὕστερον βασιλεύσαντος. ιζʹ. Περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὁμολογητῶν. ιηʹ. Περὶ Ἀρτεμίου τοῦ δουκός. ιθʹ. Περὶ Πουπλίας τῆς διακόνου καὶ τῆς κατὰ θεὸν αὐτῆς παρρησίας. κʹ. Τὰ κατὰ Ἰουδαίους καὶ τὴν τῆς οἰκοδομίας ἐπιχείρησιν καὶ τὰς ἐπενεχθείσας αὐτοῖς θεηλάτους πληγάς. καʹ. Περὶ τῆς κατὰ Περσῶν στρατείας. κβʹ. Περὶ τῆς τοῦ πολιτευομένου τοῦ Βεροιαίου παρρησίας. κγʹ. Περὶ τῆς τοῦ παιδαγωγοῦ προρρήσεως. κδʹ. Περὶ τῆς τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰουλιανοῦ τοῦ μονάζοντος προφητείας. κεʹ. Περὶ τῆς ἐν Περσίδι γεγενημένης σφαγῆς Ἰουλιανοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως. κʹ. Περὶ τῆς ἐν Κάρραις μετὰ τὴν ἀναίρεσιν αὐτοῦ φωραθείσης γοητείας. κζʹ. Περὶ τῶν ἐν τοῖς βασιλείοις Ἀντιοχείας εὑρεθεισῶν κεφαλῶν. κηʹ. Περὶ τῆς ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ πανδημεὶ γεγενημένης χορείας.

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Κωνστάντιος μὲν δὴ στένων καὶ ὀδυρόμενος ὑπεξῆλθε τὸν βίον ὅτι τῆς πατρῴας πίστεως παρετράπη· Ἰουλιανὸς δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς Εὐρώπης εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν διαβαίνων ἐπύθετο τοῦ Κωνσταντίου τὴν τελευτὴν καὶ θαρρήσας, ὡς οὐδένα ἀντίπαλον ἔχων, τὴν βασιλείαν παρέλαβεν. Οὗτος δέ, νέαν μὲν ἄγων τὴν ἡλικίαν σὺν Γάλλῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ καὶ ἄνηβος ὢν ἔτι, τὴν τῆς εὐσεβοῦς διδασκαλίας εἷλκε θηλήν, καὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ πρόσηβος γενόμενος καὶ ἔφηβος τῆς αὐτῆς μετελάγχανε· δείσας δὲ τὸν Κωνστάντιον (τοὺς γὰρ γένει προσήκοντας ἀνῄρει δειμαίνων τὰς τυραννίδας) τοῦ τῶν ἀναγνωστῶν ἠξιώθη χοροῦ καὶ τὰς ἱερὰς βίβλους ἐν τοῖς ἐκκλησιαστικοῖς συλλόγοις ὑπανεγίνωσκε τῷ λαῷ. καὶ σηκὸν μαρτύρων ἐδομήσατο μέν, οὐ προσεδέξαντο δὲ οἱ μάρτυρες τὴν εἰς ἀσέβειαν αὐτοῦ παρατροπὴν προθεώμενοι· τῶν γὰρ δὴ θεμελίων τὸ τῆς ἐκείνου γνώμης μιμησαμένων ἀβέβαιον, πρὶν ἱερωθῆναι κατέπεσε. τὰ μὲν δὴ τῆς πρώτης ἡλικίας αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆς δευτέρας τοιαῦτα ἦν. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ εἰς τὴν Ἑσπέραν ἀπαίρων Κωνστάντιος (ἐκεῖσε γὰρ αὐτὸν εἷλκεν ὁ πρὸς Μαγνέντιον πόλεμος) Καίσαρα τῆς Ἑῴας τὸν 178 Γάλλον ἀπέφηνεν, εὐσεβῆ τε ὄντα καὶ εἰς τέλος γε διαμείναντα, τὸ μὲν ὀνησιφόρον δέος Ἰουλιανὸς ἐσκέδασε τῆς ψυχῆς, θάρσος δὲ λαβὼν ὡς οὐκ ὤφελε, τῶν βασιλικῶν ἐπεθύμησε σκήπτρων. οὗ δὴ εἵνεκα τὴν Ἑλλάδα περινοστῶν μάντεις ἐπεζήτει καὶ χρησμολόγους, εἰ τεύξεται τοῦ ποθουμένου μαθεῖν ἱμειρόμενος. περιτυγχάνει δὲ ἀνθρώπῳ ταῦτα προλέγειν ὑπισχνουμένῳ, ὃς τοῦτον εἴς τινα τῶν εἰδωλικῶν σηκῶν