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of those who were afraid, he is said to have foretold the swift end of the disturbance; for he called it a cloud that would be dispersed very quickly. Nevertheless he withdrew, having learned that the men sent had arrived; and finding a ferry-boat by the bank of the river, he set sail for the country of the Thebans. But the one who had been ordered to kill him, learning of his flight, pursued with all his might. And when another of his acquaintances went ahead and said that he was pressing on hard, some of his companions begged him to turn aside to the desert; but he himself ordered the pilot to steer the ferry-boat straight for Alexandria. So as they were being carried directly opposite their pursuer, the one who had received the orders for his death arrived and asked how far away Athanasius was. But he, saying that he was near, sent him away, while he himself reached Alexandria and there remained hidden for the rest of Julian's life. But Julian, wanting to campaign against the Persians, sent the most loyal of his subjects to all the oracles throughout the Roman dominion, while he himself implored the Pythian at Daphne to reveal to him the future. But he said that the neighboring dead were an obstacle to the oracle, and that they must first be moved to another place, and then he would deliver the prophecy; "for I would not say anything, unless the precinct has been cleansed." Now at that time the remains of the gloriously triumphant martyr Babylas and of the youths who had contended with him were lying there; and it was clear that the false prophet was prevented from his usual falsehood by his grace. Julian, understanding this (for from his former piety he knew the power of the martyrs), moved no other dead body from there, but commanded the followers of Christ to transfer only the remains of the victorious martyrs. They joyfully took possession of the grove, and having placed the coffin on a cart, they led it in a great procession, dancing and singing the Davidic melody, and at every clause exclaiming: "Let all those who worship carved images be ashamed." For they supposed the removal of the martyr to be a defeat for the demon. But Julian, unable to bear the shame that came upon him from this, ordered the leaders of that procession to be arrested the next day. Salustius, being prefect at that time, although serving impiety, tried to persuade the tyrant not to provide the Christians, who were desirous of glory, with what they longed for. Seeing, however, that the emperor was unable to master his anger, he seized a certain young man adorned with divine zeal walking through the marketplace, and having publicly hung him on a wooden frame, he tore his back with thongs, and dug into his sides with claws; and he continued doing this, starting from dawn until the end of the day. Then, putting iron chains on him, he ordered him to be guarded. In the morning, having informed Julian of these things and reported the endurance of the young man, he said that what was happening was a defeat for themselves, but glory for the Christians. Thus persuaded, the God-hated one did not allow others to suffer these things, and indeed he ordered Theodore to be released from prison; for this was the name of that young and noble champion of the truth. Some asked him if he had felt the pain while enduring those bitter and most cruel tortures. But he said that at the beginning he felt a little pain, and then someone appeared to him, constantly wiping the sweat from his face with a soft and cool linen cloth and urging him to be of good courage; for this reason, he said, when the executioners stopped, he was not pleased but distressed; for he said that the one who brought him comfort also departed with them. But the false-prophesying demon increased the glory of the martyr, but exposed its own falsehood. For a thunderbolt sent down from heaven set the whole shrine on fire and reduced the very statue of the Pythian to finest dust; for it was made of wood, anointed with gold on the outside. Julian, the uncle of Julian, learning of this at night (for he was prefect of the East), riding with speed

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ὀρρωδούντων, προειρηκέναι λέγεται τὴν ταχεῖαν τοῦ θορύβου κατάλυσιν· νέφος γὰρ αὐτὸν προσηγόρευσε διαλυόμενον ὅτι τάχιστα. ὑπεχώρησε δὲ ὅμως, ἐληλυθέναι τοὺς ἀπεσταλμένους μεμαθηκώς· καὶ πορθμεῖον εὑρὼν παρὰ τὴν ὄχθην τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν Θηβαίων χώραν ἀνήγετο. ὁ δὲ ἀνελεῖν αὐτὸν προστεταγμένος, πυθόμενος τὴν φυγήν, κατὰ κράτος ἐδίωκεν. ἑτέρου δέ τινος τῶν γνωρίμων προειληφότος καὶ σφόδρα ἐλαύνειν αὐτὸν εἰρηκότος, τινὲς μὲν τῶν συνόντων ἐπὶ τὴν ἔρημον ἐκκλίνειν ἱκέτευον· αὐτὸς δὲ τῷ κυβερνήτῃ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἰθῦναι τὸ πορθμεῖον ἐκέλευεν. οὕτω δὴ αὐτῶν καταντικρὺ τοῦ διώκοντος φερομένων, ἧκεν ὁ τοῦ θανάτου τὰς ἐντολὰς δεδεγμένος καὶ πόσον ἀφέστηκεν ὁ Ἀθανάσιος ἤρετο. ὁ δὲ πελάζειν τοῦτον εἰπὼν ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἀπέπεμ ψεν, αὐτὸς δὲ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν κατέλαβε καὶ τὸ λειπόμενον τῆς Ἰουλιανοῦ βιοτῆς αὐτόθι διέλαθεν. Ἰουλιανὸς δὲ Πέρσαις ἐπιστρατεῦσαι βουλόμενος εἰς ἅπαντα μὲν τὰ κατὰ τὴν Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίαν χρηστήρια τοὺς εὐνουστάτους τῶν ὑπηκόων ἐξέπεμψεν, αὐτὸς δὲ τὸν Πύθιον τὸν ∆αφναῖον ἱκέτευε δηλῶσαί οἱ τὰ ἐσόμενα. ὁ δὲ τοὺς γειτονεύοντας νεκροὺς ἔφη ἐμ ποδὼν γίγνεσθαι τῇ μαντείᾳ, καὶ χρῆναι τούτους πρότερον εἰς ἕτερον μετατεθῆναι χωρίον, εἶθ' οὕτως ἀπαγγεῖλαι τὴν πρόρρησιν· "οὐ γὰρ ἂν εἴποιμί τι, μὴ τοῦ τεμένους ἐκκαθαρθέντος". κατ' ἐκεῖνον δὲ τὸν καιρὸν αὐτόθι κατέκειτο τοῦ καλλινίκου μάρτυρος Βαβυλᾶ καὶ τῶν συναθλησάντων αὐτῷ μειρακίων τὰ λείψανα· καὶ δῆλος ἦν ὁ ψευδόμαντις ὑπὸ τῆς ἐκείνου χάριτος τῆς συνήθους ψευδολογίας 187 εἰργόμενος. τοῦτο δὴ καὶ Ἰουλιανὸς συνεὶς (ἐκ γὰρ τῆς παλαιᾶς εὐσεβείας ἐγνώκει τῶν μαρτύρων τὴν δύναμιν) ἄλλο μὲν ἐκεῖθεν οὐδὲν νεκρὸν μετεκόμισε σῶμα, μόνων δὲ τῶν νικηφόρων μαρτύρων τὰ λείψανα τοῖς τοῦ Χριστοῦ θιασώταις μετενεγκεῖν παρηγγύησεν. οἱ δὲ ἄσμενοι τὸ ἄλσος καταλαβόντες καὶ ἐπὶ ζεύγους τεθεικότες τὴν λάρνακα, πανδημεὶ ταύτης ἡγοῦντο, χορεύοντες καὶ τὴν ∆αυϊτικὴν ᾄδοντες μελῳδίαν καὶ καθ' ἕκαστον κῶλον ἐπιφθεγγόμενοι· " αἰσχυν θήτωσαν πάντες οἱ προσκυνοῦντες τοῖς γλυπτοῖς ". ἧτταν γὰρ τοῦ δαίμονος ὑπελάμβανον τοῦ μάρτυρος τὴν μετάθεσιν. Ἰουλιανὸς δὲ τὴν ἐντεῦθεν αὐτῷ προσγενομένην αἰσχύνην οὐκ ἐνεγκὼν τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ τοὺς τῆς χορείας ἐκείνης ἡγεμόνας συλληφθῆναι προσέταξε. Σαλούστιος δὲ ὕπαρχος ὢν τηνικαῦτα, καίτοι τῇ δυσ σεβείᾳ δουλεύων, πεῖσαι τὸν τύραννον ἐπειράθη δόξης ἐφιεμένοις τοῖς Χριστιανοῖς μὴ παρασχεῖν τὸ ποθούμενον. ἰδὼν δὲ ὅμως τὸν βασιλέα ἐγκρατῆ γενέσθαι τοῦ θυμοῦ μὴ δυνάμενον, νέον τινὰ ζήλῳ θείῳ κοσμούμενον βαδίζοντα κατὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἁρπάσας καὶ δημοσίᾳ τοῦτον ἐπὶ ξύλου κρεμάσας, ἱμᾶσι μὲν τὰ νῶτα κατέξηνεν, ὄνυξι δὲ διώρυξε τὰς πλευράς· καὶ τοῦτο ποιῶν διετέλεσεν ἕωθεν ἀρξάμενος μέχρι ληγούσης ἡμέρας. εἶτα αὐτῷ τὰ ἐκ σιδήρου δεσμὰ περιθεὶς φυλαχθῆναι προσέταξε. ταῦτα ἕωθεν τὸν Ἰουλιανὸν διδάξας καὶ τοῦ νέου τὴν καρτερίαν ἀπαγγείλας, ἑαυτῶν μὲν ἧτταν εἶναι, τῶν δὲ Χριστιανῶν εὔκλειαν ἔλεγε τὰ γινόμενα. οὕτω πεισθεὶς ὁ θεο μισὴς ταῦτα παθεῖν ἑτέρους οὐκ εἴασε, καὶ μέντοι καὶ τὸν Θεόδωρον ἐκέλευσε τῆς εἱρκτῆς ἀφεθῆναι· τοῦτο γὰρ ἦν ὄνομα τῷ νέῳ ἐκείνῳ καὶ γενναίῳ τῆς ἀληθείας ἀγωνιστῇ. τοῦτον ἤροντό τινες εἰ τῆς ὀδύνης ἐπῄσθετο τὰς πικρὰς ἐκείνας καὶ ὠμοτάτας ὑπομείνας βασά 188 νους. ὁ δὲ ἔφη τὴν μὲν ἀρχὴν ὀλίγης ἀλγηδόνος αἰσθέσθαι, εἶτά οἱ ἐπιφανῆναί τινα ὀθόνῃ μαλακῇ τε καὶ ψυχρᾷ τοῦ προσώπου συνεχῶς ἐκματτόμενον τὸν ἱδρῶτα καὶ παρεγγυῶντα θαρρεῖν· διά τοι τοῦτο καὶ τῶν δημίων παυσαμένων οὐχ ἡσθῆναι ἀλλ' ἀνιαθῆναι ἔφη· συνα ποστῆναι γὰρ ἔλεγεν καὶ τὸν τὴν ψυχαγωγίαν προσφέροντα. Ὁ δὲ ψευδόμαντις δαίμων τοῦ μὲν μάρτυρος τὸ κλέος ἐπηύξησε, τὸ δὲ οἰκεῖον ἐγύμνωσε ψεῦδος. σκηπτὸς γὰρ οὐρανόθεν καταπεμφθεὶς τὸν σηκὸν ἐνέπρησεν ἅπαντα καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦ Πυθίου τὸ ἄγαλμα κόνιν λεπτοτάτην ἀπέφηνε· ξύλινον γὰρ ἦν, ἔξωθεν ἀληλιμμένον χρυσῷ. τοῦτο Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ Ἰουλιανοῦ θεῖος νύκτωρ μαθὼν (τῆς Ἑῴας δὲὕπαρχος ἦν) κατὰ τάχος ἐλαύνων