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having led him and prepared for him to be inside the inner sanctuary, he called the deceiving demons. And when they appeared with their usual phantasm, fear compelled him to place on his forehead the sign of the cross; but they, seeing the symbol of the master's trophy and being reminded of their own defeat, immediately vanished. But that magician, understanding the reason for their flight, reproached him. Julian, however, both declared his fear and said that he admired the strength of the cross; for the demons fled, unable to bear the sight of its symbol. "Do not suppose this, my good man," said the magician, "for they were not afraid, as you say, but departed in disgust at what was done by you." Thus having deceived the wretched man, he both initiated him and filled him with the abomination. And the desire for the kingdom stripped the thrice-wretched man of his piety. Nevertheless, having taken over the supreme power, he for a very long time concealed his impiety; for he was especially afraid of the soldiers, who had received the teachings of piety. For first, the all-praised Constantine, having freed them from their former deceit, instructed them in the teachings of the truth; then his sons made the teaching received from their father more firm among them. 179 For even if Constantius, deceived by those who led him, did not accept the term homoousios, he at least purely confessed its meaning. For he named God the Word the genuine Son, begotten of the Father before the ages, and openly renounced those who dared to call him a creature, and he completely forbade the worship of idols. And I will relate another praiseworthy thing about him, sufficient to demonstrate his zeal concerning divine matters. For indeed in the war against Magnentius, having gathered the whole army, he advised all to partake of the divine mysteries, saying that the end of life is always uncertain, and not least in war, when myriads of both arrows and javelins and spears are being thrown from both sides, and indeed also swords and knives are brought to bear, and the other instruments through which violent death is inflicted. "For which reason each one must have that precious robe of which we have the greatest need in that life. But if anyone postpones receiving this garment, let him now depart from here and go home; for I will not endure fighting alongside the uninitiated." Julian, clearly knowing these things, did not have the impiety of his soul on display, but drawing all to goodwill, he commanded the bishops who had been driven from the churches by Constantius and were living in the furthest parts of the world to return to their own churches. Therefore, when this law was enacted, the divine Meletius returned to Antioch, and the much-praised Athanasius to Alexandria. And Eusebius and Hilary from Italy, and Lucifer who was allotted to shepherd the island of Sardinia, were living in the Thebaid near Egypt; for Constantius had exiled them there. 180 These men, having come together with the others of like mind, said that it was necessary to bring the churches together into one accord. For not only were they besieged by those who thought the opposite, but they also were in conflict with themselves. For indeed in Antioch the sound body of the church was divided in two; for both those who from the beginning, on account of the all-praised Eustathius, had separated from the others were assembling by themselves, and those who with the admirable Meletius had separated from the Arian faction were performing the divine liturgies in the place called Palaea. And the confession of faith of both these and those was one; for each system championed the teaching set forth in Nicaea. But only strife separated them from one another, and their disposition concerning their leaders; for not even the death of the one dissolved the division. For before the ordination of Meletius, Eustathius having died, and those who held to piety having separated from the communion of the impious after the exile of Meletius and the ordination of Euzoius and were gathering by themselves, to be united with these the ones from

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ἀγαγὼν καὶ εἴσω γενέσθαι τῶν ἀδύτων παρασκευάσας, τοὺς ἀπατεῶνας ἐκάλεσε δαίμονας. ἐκείνων δὲ μετὰ τῆς συνήθους φαντασίας ἐπιφανέντων, ἠνάγκασε τοῦτον τὸ δέος ἐπιθεῖναι τῷ μετώπῳ τοῦ σταυροῦ τὸ σημεῖον· οἱ δὲ τοῦ δεσποτικοῦ τροπαίου τὸν τύπον ἰδόντες καὶ τῆς σφετέρας ἥττης ἀναμνησθέντες, φροῦδοι παραυτίκα ἐγένοντο. συνεὶς δὲ ὁ γόης ἐκεῖνος τῆς φυγῆς τὴν αἰτίαν ἐπεμέμψατο τούτῳ. Ἰουλιανὸς δὲ καὶ τὸ δέος ἐδήλωσε καὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ θαυμάζειν ἔφησε τὴν ἰσχύν· ἀπέδρασαν γὰρ οἱ δαίμονες τούτου τὸν τύπον οὐκ ἐνεγκόντες ἰδεῖν. "μὴ δὴ τοῦτο ὑπολάβῃς, ὦ ἀγαθέ", ὁ γόης ἔφη, "οὐ γὰρ ἔδεισαν, ὥς γε σὺ φῄς, ἀλλὰ βδελυξάμενοι τὸ παρὰ σοῦ γενόμενον ᾤχοντο". οὕτω βουκολήσας τὸν δείλαιον ἐμύησέ τε καὶ τοῦ μύσους ἐνέπλησε. καὶ ἡ τῆς βασιλείας ἐπιθυμία τῆς εὐσεβείας ἐγύμνωσε τὸν τρισάθλιον. Παραλαβὼν δὲ ὅμως τὴν δυναστείαν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἔκρυψε τὴν ἀσέβειαν· διαφερόντως γὰρ ἐδεδίει τοὺς στρατιώτας, τὰ τῆς εὐσεβείας εἰσδεδεγμένους μαθήματα. πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ αὐτοὺς ὁ πανεύφημος Κωνσταντῖνος, τῆς προτέρας ἐξαπάτης ἐλευθερώσας, ἐξεπαίδευσε τὰ τῆς ἀληθείας μαθήματα· ἔπειτα δὲ οἱ ἐκείνου παῖδες βεβαιοτέραν ἐν αὐτοῖς τὴν παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς γεγενημένην διδασκαλίαν εἰργάσαντο. 179 εἰ γὰρ καὶ τοῦ ὁμοουσίου τὸ πρόσρημα βουκοληθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγόντων αὐτὸν ὁ Κωνστάντιος οὐ προσίετο, τὴν γοῦν τούτου διάνοιαν ἀκραι φνῶς ὡμολόγει. γνήσιον γὰρ υἱὸν πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς γεγεννημένον τὸν θεὸν λόγον ὠνόμαζε καὶ τοὺς κτίσμα λέγειν τολ μῶντας ἄντικρυς ἀπεκήρυττε, τὴν δὲ τῶν εἰδώλων παντελῶς ἀπη γόρευσε θεραπείαν. ἐρῶ δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕτερον ἀξιέπαινον, ἱκανὸν τεκμηριῶσαι τὴν περὶ τὰ θεῖα σπουδήν. ἐν γὰρ δὴ τῷ πρὸς Μα γνέντιον πολέμῳ ἅπασαν συναλίσας τὴν στρατιὰν μεταλαχεῖν ἅπαντας τῶν θείων συνεβούλευσε μυστηρίων, ἀεὶ μὲν ἄδηλον εἶναι λέγων τοῦ βίου τὸ τέλος, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ ἐν πολέμῳ, μυρίων ἑκατέρωθεν ἀφιε μένων καὶ βελῶν καὶ πελτῶν καὶ δοράτων, καὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ ξιφῶν καὶ κοπίδων ἐπιφερομένων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὀργάνων δι' ὧν ὁ βίαιος ἐπάγεται θάνατος. "οὗ δὴ ἕνεκα χρὴ ἕκαστον τὴν ἀξιόκτητον ἐκείνην ἔχειν στολὴν ἧς ὅτι μάλιστα ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ βίῳ δεόμεθα. εἰ δέ τις τήνδε λαβεῖν τὴν ἀμπεχόνην ἀναβάλλεται, νῦν ἐντεῦθεν ἀπάρας οἴκαδε ἀπίτω· ἀμυήτοις γὰρ συμπολεμεῖν οὐκ ἀνέξομαι." Ταῦτα δὲ Ἰουλιανὸς σαφῶς ἐπιστάμενος τὸ δυσσεβὲς τῆς ψυχῆς οὐκ ἐπίδηλον εἶχεν, εἰς εὔνοιαν δὲ ἅπαντας ἐφελκόμενος καὶ τοὺς ὑπὸ Κωνσταντίου τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἐξελαθέντας ἐπισκόπους καὶ τὰς ἐσχατιὰς τῆς οἰκουμένης οἰκοῦντας εἰς τὰς οἰκείας ἐπανελθεῖν ἐκκλησίας προσέταξε. τούτου δὴ οὖν τοῦ νόμου τεθέντος, εἰς μὲν τὴν Ἀντιό χειαν ἐπανῆλθεν ὁ θεῖος Μελέτιος, εἰς δὲ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ὁ πολυ ύμνητος Ἀθανάσιος. Εὐσέβιος δὲ καὶ Ἱλάριος οἱ ἐκ τῆς Ἰταλίας καὶ Λουκίφερ ὁ Σαρδῶ τὴν νῆσον ποιμαίνειν λαχὼν ἐν τῇ Θηβαίων τῇ πρὸς Αἴγυπτον διῆγον· ἐκεῖ γὰρ αὐτοὺς ὁ Κωνστάντιος ἐξωστράκισεν. 180 οὗτοι σὺν τοῖς ἄλλοις ὁμόφροσι κατὰ ταὐτὸν γενόμενοι χρῆναι τὰς ἐκκλησίας ἔλεγον εἰς μίαν συναγαγεῖν συμφωνίαν. οὐ γὰρ μόνον αὐτὰς οἱ τἀναντία φρονοῦντες ἐπολιόρκουν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐταὶ πρὸς ἑαυτὰς ἐστασίαζον. Καὶ γὰρ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ διχῆ τὸ ὑγιαῖνον σῶμα τῆς ἐκκλησίας διῄρητο· οἵ τε γὰρ ἐξ ἀρχῆς Εὐσταθίου χάριν τοῦ πανευφήμου τῶν ἄλλων ἀποκριθέντες καθ' ἑαυτοὺς συνηθροίζοντο, καὶ οἱ μετὰ Μελε τίου τοῦ θαυμασίου τῆς Ἀρειανικῆς συμμορίας χωρισθέντες ἐν τῇ καλουμένῃ Παλαιᾷ τὰς λειτουργίας ἐπετέλουν τὰς θείας. καὶ ἦν μὲν τούτων κἀκείνων μία ἡ ὁμολογία τῆς πίστεως· ἑκάτερον γὰρ σύστημα τῆς ἐκτεθείσης ἐν Νικαίᾳ διδασκαλίας ὑπερεμάχει. μόνη δὲ αὐτοὺς ἔρις ἀπ' ἀλλήλων διίστη καὶ ἡ περὶ τοὺς ἡγουμένους διάθεσις· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἡ θἀτέρου τελευτὴ διέλυσε τὴν διάστασιν. πρὸ γὰρ τῆς Μελετίου χειροτονίας Εὐσταθίου τετελευτηκότος καὶ τῶν τῆς εὐσεβείας ἀντε χομένων μετὰ τὴν Μελετίου μὲν ἐξορίαν Εὐζωΐου δὲ χειροτονίαν τῆς τῶν δυσσεβούντων κοινωνίας ἀποκριθέντων καὶ καθ' ἑαυτοὺς ἀθροιζο μένων, συναφθῆναι τούτοις οἱ ἀπ'