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pavilion, as if the emperor Julian had summoned him. And when he entered the pavilion, they seized him and proclaimed him emperor on the 27th of the month of Daisiou, which is also June, before dawn. But the mass of the army at Ctesiphon and that which was encamped at a great distance did not know what had happened until sunrise, as they were some distance away. So the same Julian died, being emperor at the age of 33 years. And in that very night, the most holy bishop Basil of Caesarea in Cappadocia also saw in a vision the heavens opened and the savior Christ sitting upon a throne and saying with a shout, "Mercurius, go and kill Julian the emperor, the one against the Christians." And Saint Mercurius, standing before the Lord, wore a gleaming iron breastplate; 334 and having heard the command, he became invisible. And again he was found standing before the Lord and he cried out, "Julian the emperor has been slain and is dead, as you commanded, Lord." And terrified by the shout, bishop Basil was awakened, disturbed. For the emperor Julian honored him both as a learned man and as his collaborator, and wrote to him frequently. And Saint Basil, having gone down for the morning services to the church, called all his clergy and told them the mystery of the vision, and that Julian the emperor was slain and died on that night. And they all begged him to be silent and to say nothing of the sort to anyone. But the most learned Eutropius the chronicler did not agree on some of these things in his own writing. And after the reign of Julian the apostate, Jovian, the son of Uranianus, reigned, having been crowned by the army there in the Persian territories during the consulate of Salustius; he was a very devout Christian; and he reigned for 7 months. And as soon as he became emperor, he addressed the whole army and the senators with him, crying out himself, "If you wish me to reign over you, then you must all be Christians." And all 335 the army and the senators acclaimed him. And the same Jovian, having come out with the army from the desert into the fertile Persian land, was concerned about how he might get out of the Persian territories. But the king of the Persians, Sabbourarsakios, having learned of the death of the emperor Julian, being seized with great fear, sent an ambassador from the land of Persarmenia, asking about peace and sending one of his magnates named Surraeinan to the emperor of the Romans; whom the most divine emperor Jovian received gladly and consented to receive the embassy of peace, saying that he himself would also send an ambassador to the king of the Persians. And Surraeinan, the ambassador of the Persians, having heard this, asked the emperor Jovian to formulate a peace treaty immediately and at once. And having appointed his senator, the patrician Arintheus, he gave him full authority, having instructed him to abide by what was approved by him, that is, what was formulated, since his king was proud, to make a peace treaty with the senator, that is, the ambassador of the Persians, and having granted a cessation of war for three days for the council concerning peace. And it was formulated between 336 the patrician Arintheus the Roman and Surraeinan, senator and ambassador of the Persians, that the Romans give to the Persians the whole province called Mygdonia and its metropolis called Nisibis, stripped, with only its walls, without the men who inhabit it. And when this was confirmed and a written peace was made, the emperor Jovian took with him one of the satraps, a Persian, along with the ambassador, named Junius, in order to save himself and his expedition from the Persian land and to hand over the province and its metropolis. And having arrived at the city of Nisibis, the emperor Jovian did not enter into it,

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παπυλεῶνα, ὡς δῆθεν τοῦ βασιλέως Ἰουλιανοῦ ζητήσαντος αὐτόν. καὶ ὅτε εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν παπυλεῶνα, συσχόντες αὐτὸν ἀνηγόρευσαν βασιλέα τῇ κζʹ τοῦ δαισίου τοῦ καὶ ἰουνίου μηνός, πρὸ τοῦ διαφαῦσαι. τὸ δὲ πλῆθος τοῦ στρατοῦ τὸ ἐπὶ Κτησιφῶντα καὶ τὸ ἀπὸ πολλοῦ διαστήματος ἀπληκεῦον οὐκ ἔγνω τὰ συμβάντα ἕως ἀνατολῆς ἡλίου, ὡς ἀπὸ διαστήματος ὄντες. ἐτελεύτα οὖν ὁ αὐτὸς Ἰουλιανὸς βασιλεὺς ὢν ἐνιαυτῶν λγʹ. Ἐν αὐτῇ δὲ τῇ νυκτὶ εἶδεν ἐν ὁράματι καὶ ὁ ὁσιώτατος ἐπίσκοπος Βασίλειος ὁ Καισαρείας Καππαδοκίας τοὺς οὐρανοὺς ἠνεῳγμένους καὶ τὸν σωτῆρα Χριστὸν ἐπὶ θρόνου καθήμενον καὶ εἰπόντα κραυγῇ, Μερκούριε, ἀπελθὼν φόνευσον Ἰουλιανὸν τὸν βασιλέα τὸν κατὰ τῶν χριστιανῶν. ὁ δὲ ἅγιος Μερκούριος ἑστὼς ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ κυρίου ἐφόρει θώρακα σιδηροῦν ἀποστίλβοντα· 334 καὶ ἀκούσας τὴν κέλευσιν ἀφανὴς ἐγένετο. καὶ πάλιν εὑρέθη ἑστὼς ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ κυρίου καὶ ἔκραξεν, Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς σφαγεὶς ἀπέθανεν, ὡς ἐκέλευσας, κύριε. καὶ πτοηθεὶς ἐκ τῆς κραυγῆς ὁ ἐπίσκοπος Βασίλειος διυπνίσθη τεταραγμένος. ἐτίμα γὰρ αὐτὸν Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ ὡς ἐλλόγιμον καὶ ὡς συμπράκτορα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔγραφεν αὐτῷ συχνῶς. καὶ κατελθὼν ὁ ἅγιος Βασίλειος διὰ τὰ ἑωθινὰ εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, καλέσας πάντα τὸν κλῆρον αὐτοῦ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς τὸ τοῦ ὁράματος μυστήριον, καὶ ὅτι ἐσφάγη Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ τελευτᾷ ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ ταύτῃ. καὶ πάντες παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν σιγᾶν καὶ μηδενὶ λέγειν τι τοιοῦτον. ὁ δὲ σοφώτατος Εὐτρόπιος ὁ χρονογράφος ἔν τισι τούτων οὐχ ὡμοφώνησεν ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ συγγραφῇ. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν Ἰουλιανοῦ τοῦ παραβάτου ἐβασίλευσεν Ἰουβιανὸς ὁ υἱὸς Οὐρανιανοῦ, στεφθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ στρατοῦ ἐκεῖ ὑπὸ τὰ Περσικὰ μέρη ἐπὶ τῆς ὑπατείας Σαλουστίου· ἦν δὲ χριστιανὸς πάνυ· ἐβασίλευσε δὲ μῆνας ζʹ. Ἢ μόνον δὲ ἐβασίλευσε, προσεφώνησε παντὶ τῷ στρατῷ καὶ τοῖς μετ' αὐτοῦ συγκλητικοῖς δι' ἑαυτοῦ κράξας, Εἰ θέλετέ με βασιλεύειν ὑμῶν, ἵνα πάντες χριστιανοί ἐστε. καὶ εὐφήμησαν αὐ 335 τὸν ἅπας ὁ στρατὸς καὶ οἱ συγκλητικοί. καὶ ἐξελθὼν ὁ αὐτὸς Ἰοβιανὸς ἅμα τῷ στρατῷ ἐκ τῆς ἐρήμου εἰς τὴν εὐθαλῆ γῆν τὴν Περσικὴν ἐμερίμνα πῶς ἂν ἐξέλθοι ἐκ τῶν Περσικῶν μερῶν. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Περσῶν Σαββουραρσάκιος μαθὼν τὴν τοῦ βασιλέως Ἰουλιανοῦ τελευτήν, φόβῳ πολλῷ συνεχόμενος ἐκ τῆς Περσαρμενίας χώρας πρεσβευτὴν ἐξέπεμψεν, αἰτῶν περὶ εἰρήνης καὶ δεόμενος ἕνα τῶν μεγιστάνων αὐτοῦ ὀνόματι Σουῤῥαεινᾶν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα Ῥωμαίων· ὅντινα ἐδέξατο ἀσμένως ὁ θειότατος Ἰοβιανὸς βασιλεὺς καὶ ἐπένευσε δέχεσθαι τὴν πρεσβείαν τῆς εἰρήνης, εἰρηκὼς πέμπειν καὶ αὐτὸς πρεσβευτὴν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα Περσῶν. ἀκούσας δὲ τοῦτο Σουῤῥαεινᾶς πρεσβευτὴς Περσῶν ᾔτησε τὸν βασιλέα Ἰοβιανὸν τυπῶσαι εὐθὺς καὶ παραχρῆμα εἰρήνης πάκτα. καὶ ἀφορίσας συγκλητικὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν πατρίκιον Ἀρίνθεον δέδωκεν αὐτῷ τὸ πᾶν, συνταξάμενος ἐμμένειν τοῖς παρ' αὐτοῦ δοκιμαζομένοις, ἤτοι τυπουμένοις, οἷα τοῦ βασιλέως αὐτοῦ ὑπερηφανοῦντος, μετὰ τοῦ συγκλητικοῦ, ἤτοι πρεσβευτοῦ Περσῶν, ποιῆσαι εἰρήνης πάκτα, καὶ παρασχόντος ἔνδοσιν τοῦ πολέμου ἡμέρας τρεῖς ἐν τῇ περὶ τῆς εἰρήνης βουλῇ. καὶ ἐτυπώθη μετα 336 ξὺ τοῦ πατρικίου Ἀρινθέου τοῦ Ῥωμαίου καὶ Σουῤῥαεινᾶ, συγκλητικοῦ καὶ πρεσβευτοῦ Περσῶν, δοῦναι Ῥωμαίους Πέρσαις πᾶσαν τὴν ἐπαρχίαν τὴν λεγομένην Μυγδονίαν καὶ τὴν μητρόπολιν αὐτῆς τὴν λεγομένην Νιζτίβιος γυμνὴν σὺν τείχεσι μόνοις ἄνευ ἀνδρῶν τῶν οἰκούντων αὐτήν. καὶ τούτου στηριχθέντος καὶ εἰρήνης ἐγγράφου γενομένης, ἔλαβε μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἰοβιανὸς ἕνα τῶν σατραπῶν Πέρσην ὄντα μετὰ τοῦ πρεσβευτοῦ ὀνόματι Ἰούνιον εἰς τὸ διασῶσαι αὐτὸν καὶ τὰ ἐξπέδιτα αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῆς Περσικῆς χώρας καὶ παραλαβεῖν τὴν ἐπαρχίαν καὶ τὴν μητρόπολιν αὐτῆς. Καὶ καταφθάσας ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἰοβιανὸς τὸ Νιζτίβιος πόλιν οὐκ εἰσῆλθεν ἐν αὐτῇ,