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he exiles in Cucusus. and there he is strangled by the Arians with his own omophorion, and Macedonius again takes the throne, but Athanasius again secures his safety by flight.

And bringing Julian, the brother of Gallus, out of prison, he appoints him Caesar and sends him to Gaul, having joined to him in marriage his own sister Helena, who was also called Constantia. The wife of Constantius was Eusebia the renowned, whose beauty went out into all the earth; but her husband, being more effeminate than was fitting, and moreover being sickly, was not able to attend to the woman, who, boiling over with the flower of her youth and the beauty of her nature, fell into the passion of nymphomania, and wasting away little by little, she died, and enjoyed neither her beauty, nor her age, nor her royal state; for a woman might suffer other things as secondary, but failing to have a husband, she fails in life. 1.530 In the 22nd year, the Arians persuaded the emperor Constantius against Athanasius, so as to condemn him to capital punishment; but even then the saint secured his safety by flight. And a great earthquake having occurred in Nicomedia around the third hour of the night, it overcame the city, and destroyed great multitudes along with the bishop Cecropius. Macedonius, therefore, holding the throne of Constantinople, moved the body of the great Constantine to the church of Saint Acacius from the church of the Holy Apostles, alleging the collapse of the church as a pretext; and when the people tried to prevent it, a great slaughter occurred, so that the well of the martyrium and the public squares and the courtyard were filled with blood. When Constantius learned this, he deposed him and appointed Eudoxius in his place, having exchanged a great evil for a greater evil. This Eudoxius consecrated the church of Hagia Sophia for the second time because after its first completion and its consecration by Eusebius, it fell down again and was rebuilt again by the same Constantius. In the time of this Eudoxius, the disciple of Eunomius, was Ephrem the Syrian, among the saints, great in deed and word, who left behind many useful things in writing. In the 23rd year of Constantius, Flavian of Antioch, dividing the choirs of singers, was the first to teach them to sing the Davidic melody in succession. And after him, Peter the Fuller, having tyrannically mounted the throne of Antioch, first devised that the myron be consecrated in the church in the presence of all the people, and that the invocation over the 1.531 waters at the holy Theophany take place in the evening, and that in every prayer the Theotokos be named, and that at every synaxis the symbol of the faith be recited, which was previously said only on Great Friday. Constantius, therefore, having heard that Julian, having distinguished himself in wars in Gaul, had been proclaimed emperor by the army, while staying in Antioch on account of the Persian war, set out against him, and having come to Mopsucrenae, he died, on the 3rd of the month of November, condemning much of his own ignorance. He was then baptized in Antioch by Euzoius the Arian. His body, Jovian, the emperor after him, being then a protector, carried away and laid near his father in the heroön with Eusebia his first wife. And as soon as Julian was proclaimed in Gaul, immediately the dome of the holy great church of God, being vaulted, collapsed, and it crushed the ambo and the soleas, which were of onyx stone, and reduced them to dust. Julian, seeing this church afterwards, said: "Still the Christians have churches. If I return from Persia, I will make the central part a hayloft and the parts on either side stables for my horses, and I shall see where they place their hope." And Julian was short in body, with a fine beard, black-haired, exceedingly continent of sleep and luxury and sexual pleasures, most ambitious 1.532 and wicked in the manner of piety. This man, having become sole ruler, shamelessly Hellenized, with the blood of sacrifices the holy baptism

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Ἰουλιανὸν δὲ τὸν ἀδελφὸν Γάλλου ἐκ τῆς φυλακῆς ἐξαγαγὼν Καίσαρα προβάλλεται καὶ εἰς Γαλλίας ἐκπέμπει, ζεύξας αὐτῷ πρὸς γάμον τὴν ἰδίαν ἀδελφὴν Ἑλένην τὴν καὶ Κωνσταντίαν. γαμετὴ δὲ Κωνσταντίου ἦν Εὐ σεβία ἡ περιώνυμος, ἧς τὸ κάλλος εἰς πᾶσαν ἐξῆλθε τὴν γῆν· ἀλλ' ὁ ταύτης ἀνὴρ μαλθακώτερος ὑπάρχων τοῦ πρέποντος, ἔτι δὲ καὶ νοσηλευόμενος, οὐκ ἠδύνατο θεραπεῦσαι τὴν ἄνθρωπον, ἣ τῷ τῆς νεότητος ἄνθει καὶ τῷ κάλλει τῆς φύσεως ὑπερζέουσα τῷ τῆς μητρομανίας περιέπεσε πάθει, φθίνουσα δὲ κατὰ μικρὸν ἐτελεύτησε, καὶ οὔτε τοῦ κάλλους οὔτε τῆς ἡλικίας οὔτε τῆς βασι λείας ἀπώνατο· τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλα δεύτερ' ἂν πάσχοι γυνή, ἀνδρὸς δ' ἁμαρτάνουσ' ἁμαρτάνει βίου. 1.530 Τῷ κβʹ ἔτει οἱ Ἀρειανοὶ τὸν βασιλέα Κωνστάντιον κατὰ Ἀθανασίου παρέπεισαν ὡς κεφαλικὴν τιμωρίαν αὐτοῦ καταψηφί σασθαι· ἀλλὰ καὶ τότε φυγῇ ὁ ἅγιος τὴν σωτηρίαν ἐπραγματεύ σατο. σεισμοῦ δὲ μεγάλου ἐν Νικομηδείᾳ γενομένου περὶ ὥραν νυκτερινὴν τρίτην, τὴν πόλιν κατέλαβε, καὶ πλήθη πολλὰ διέ φθειρε μετὰ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου Κεκροπίου. Μακεδόνιος τοίνυν τὸν θρόνον τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως κατέχων μετήγαγε τὸ σῶμα τοῦ μεγάλου Κωνσταντίνου εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἀκάκιον ἀπὸ τοῦ ναοῦ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων, πτῶσιν προφασιζόμενος τοῦ ναοῦ· τοῦ δὲ λαοῦ κωλύοντος φόνος γέγονε πολύς, ὥστε πληρωθῆναι τὸ φρέαρ τοῦ μαρτυρίου καὶ τὰς πλατείας καὶ τὴν αὐλὴν αἱμάτων. ὅπερ γνοὺς Κωνστάντιος τοῦτον μὲν καθῄρησε καὶ Εὐδόξιον ἀντικατέστησε, μείζονι κακῷ μέγα κακὸν ἀμειψάμενος. οὗτος ὁ Εὐδόξιος ἐνε καίνισε τὸ δεύτερον τὸν ναὸν τῆς ἁγίας σοφίας διὰ τὸ μετὰ τὸν πρῶτον ἀπαρτισμὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν ἐγκαινισμὸν τὸν δι' Εὐσεβίου πάλιν πεσεῖν καὶ αὖθις οἰκοδομηθῆναι διὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Κωνσταν τίου. ἐπὶ τούτου τοῦ Εὐδοξίου τοῦ μαθητοῦ Εὐνομίου ὁ ἐν ἁγίοις Ἐφραὶμ ὁ Σύρος ἦν, μέγας ἐν ἔργῳ καὶ λόγῳ, ὃς πολλὰ ὠφέλιμα ἐγγράφως καταλέλοιπε. Τῷ κγʹ ἔτει τοῦ Κωνσταντίου Φλαβιανὸς ὁ Ἀντιοχείας τοὺς τῶν ψαλλόντων χοροὺς διελὼν ἐκ διαδοχῆς τὴν ∆αβιτικὴν ἐδίδαξε πρῶτος ᾄδειν μελῳδίαν. μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον Πέτρος ὁ κναφεὺς τυ ραννικῶς τῷ θρόνῳ Ἀντιοχείας ἐπιβὰς πρῶτον ἐπενόησε τὸ μύρον ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἐπὶ παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ ἁγιάζεσθαι, καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ τῶν 1.531 ὑδάτων ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις θεοφανίοις ἐπίκλησιν ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ γίνεσθαι, καὶ ἐν ἑκάστῃ εὐχῇ τὴν θεοτόκον ὀνομάζεσθαι, καὶ ἐπὶ πάσῃ συνάξει τὸ σύμβολον τῆς πίστεως λέγεσθαι, πρότερον τῇ μεγάλῃ παρασκευῇ καὶ μόνον λεγόμενον. Ἀκηκοὼς τοίνυν Κωνστάντιος ὅτι Ἰουλιανὸς ἐν Γαλλίαις ἐν πολέμοις εὐδοκιμήσας ὑπὸ τοῦ στρατοῦ βασιλεὺς ἀνηγορεύθη, ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ διάγων διὰ τὸν Περσικὸν πόλεμον ἐξώρμησε κατ' αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐν Μόψου κρήναις τελευτᾷ, μηνὶ Νοεμβρίῳ γʹ, πολλὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ἀγνοίας καταγνούς. ἐβαπτίσθη δὲ τότε ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ ὑπὸ Εὐζωΐου τοῦ Ἀρειανοῦ. οὗ τὸ σῶμα Ἰοβιανὸς ὁ μετὰ ταῦτα βασιλεύς, προτίκτωρ τότε ὤν, ἀποκομίσας ἀπέθετο πλησίον τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ἡρώῳ μετὰ Εὐσεβίας τῆς αὐτοῦ πρώτης γυ ναικός. Ἅμα δὲ τῷ ἀναγορευθῆναι Ἰουλιανὸν ἐν Γαλλίαις εὐθὺς ἡ τροῦλλα τῆς ἁγίας τοῦ θεοῦ μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας, φουρνικὴ οὖσα, ἔπεσε, τόν τε ἄμβωνα καὶ τὰς σολέας ἐξ ὀνυχίτου λίθου ὄντα συνέτριψε καὶ εἰς χοῦν ἀπετέλεσε. τοῦτον τὸν ναὸν ἰδὼν μετὰ ταῦτα Ἰουλιανὸς εἶπεν "ἀκμὴν οἱ Χριστιανοὶ ἐκκλησίας ἔχουσιν. ἐὰν ὑποστρέψω ἀπὸ Περσῶν, τὸν μὲν μέσον χορτοβολῶνα τὰ δὲ ἔνθεν κἀκεῖθεν μέρη στάβλους τῶν ἵππων μου ποιήσας ἰδεῖν ἔχω αὐτοὺς ποῦ ἐλπίζουσιν." Ἦν δὲ Ἰουλιανὸς τὸ σῶμα βραχύς, εὐπώγων, μελανόθριξ, ὕπνου καὶ τρυφῆς καὶ ἀφροδισίων ὅτι μάλα ἐγκρατής, φιλοδοξό 1.532 τατός τε καὶ τῷ κατ' εὐσέβειαν τρόπῳ πονηρός. οὗτος μονοκρά τωρ γενόμενος ἀναιδῶς ἑλλήνιζεν, αἵματι θυσιῶν τὸ ἅγιον βά πτισμα