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washing himself, and doing all things by which the demons are served. He therefore sent Oribasius the physician and quaestor to Delphi to rebuild the temple of Apollo. So he went and, having begun the work, received an oracle from the demon: Tell the king, the skillfully wrought hall has fallen to the ground. No longer does Phoebus have a hut, nor a prophetic laurel, nor a speaking spring. Even the chattering water is quenched. In his first year, when he put on the diadem before the death of Constantius, divine wraths immediately seized the land of the Romans. Therefore, wishing to show Constantius to be unjust and lawless, the impious one, feigning justice, recalled the bishops from exile.

And he put to death Eusebius, the chief of the imperial eunuchs, as supposedly unjust. He also expelled the rest of the eunuchs of the palace because he had lost his wife, whom Constantius, her brother, had joined to him. Likewise also the cooks because of the plainness of his diet, and the barbers because one was sufficient for many, as he said. And from the public post he expelled the camels and asses and mules, allowing only horses to serve, because of his great avarice, of which he was a slave. Then the 1.533 Hellenes in the East, being stirred up, immediately in Alexandria dragged George the bishop and killed him. Then Athanasius, who had been hiding with a certain virgin for a long time, came out and held a synod, and having ratified the dogmas of Nicaea, he took back the churches. But the Arians after George appointed Lucius for themselves, and they gathered in a common house. And the Hellenes crucified and slaughtered many Christians. For in Gaza and Ascalon they killed presbyters and perpetual virgins, and opening up their entrails and filling them with barley, they threw them to the pigs. And in Phoenicia, they killed Cyril the deacon and tasted his liver. But the one who cut up the deacon and tasted his liver, his tongue rotted and fell out, and he lost his teeth, and his eyes were blinded, and being bitterly tormented, he died. And what need is there to speak of the things being done by the Hellenes in each city and country at that time? For they surpass all speech and writing. At that time also the great Basil was a presbyter of the church of the Cappadocians, and Libanius the sophist and Proclus and Maximus the philosophers. In the second year, the impious Julian decreed that Christians should not partake in Hellenic studies. But Apollinarius, using the whole of divine scripture and imitating the styles of all the poets, wrote for the Christians to be educated. And the 1.534 transgressor, imitating the benefactions of the Christians, commanded that things for their need be supplied to strangers and the poor, deceiving the more simple. And he ordered that Zeus and Ares and Hermes and the other demons be depicted with his images, and that those who put off the worship of these be punished as enemies of the emperor. And while distributing the stipend to the army, he would place a fire and frankincense, and he compelled the soldiers to offer incense. And in Caesarea Philippi, which is now Paneas, the woman with the issue of blood who was healed by Christ erected a statue to the Lord Christ, and a herb grew under the base of the statue as a remedy for every disease. Therefore, envying the herb, the wretched man pulled down the statue, and in its place he set up a wooden image of Julian. And the Christians took the statue of the Savior and placed it in a church, but the one of Julian, a fire coming down from heaven consumed.

And in Nicopolis of Palestine, at Emmaus, there is a spring, a healing for all kinds of afflictions of both men and cattle; for in it they say that our Lord and God washed his feet from his journey. In Hermopolis of the Thebaid stands a persea tree; if someone should take a leaf or a chip of it, it is a cure for every disease; which

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ἀποπλυνάμενος, καὶ πάντα ποιῶν οἷς οἱ δαίμονες θερα πεύονται. πέμπει οὖν Ὀριβάσιον τὸν ἰατρὸν καὶ κοιαίστωρα ἐν ∆ελφοῖς ἀνεγεῖραι τὸν ναὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος. ἀπελθὼν οὖν αὐτὸς καὶ τοῦ ἔργου ἁψάμενος λαμβάνει χρησμὸν παρὰ τοῦ δαί μονος· εἴπατε τῷ βασιλεῖ, χαμαὶ πέσε δαίδαλος αὐλά. οὐκέτι Φοῖβος ἔχει καλύβαν, οὐ μάντιδα δάφνην, οὐ παγὰν λαλέουσαν. ἀπέσβετο καὶ λάλον ὕδωρ. Τῷ πρώτῳ τούτου ἔτει διάδημα περιθεμένου πρὸ τῆς τοῦ Κωνσταντίου τελευτῆς εὐθὺς θεήλατοι ὀργαὶ τὴν Ῥωμαίων γῆν κατειλήφασι. δεῖξαι οὖν θέλων τὸν Κωνστάντιον ἄδικον καὶ παράνομον, ὑποκρινόμενος δικαιοσύνην ὁ ἀσεβὴς τοὺς ἐν ἐξορίᾳ ἐπισκόπους ἀνεκαλέσατο.

Εὐσέβιον δὲ τὸν πρῶτον τῶν βασιλι κῶν εὐνούχων ἀνεῖλεν ὡς δῆθεν ἄδικον. ἐδίωξε δὲ καὶ τοὺς λοι ποὺς εὐνούχους τοῦ παλατίου διὰ τὸ ἀποβαλεῖν τὴν γυναῖκα, ἣν συνῆψεν αὐτῷ Κωνστάντιος ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτῆς. ὁμοίως καὶ μαγεί ρους διὰ τὸ λιτὸν τῆς διαίτης, καὶ κουρίσκους διὰ τὸ ἕνα πολλοῖς ἀρκεῖν, ὡς ἔλεγε. τοῦ δὲ δημοσίου δρόμου τάς τε καμήλους καὶ ὄνους καὶ ἡμιόνους ἐξέβαλε, μόνους ἵππους συγχωρήσας ὑπουρ γεῖν διὰ πολλὴν φιλαργυρίαν, ἧς δοῦλος ἦν. τότε οἱ κατὰ ἀνα 1.533 τολὴν Ἕλληνες ἐπαρθέντες εὐθὺς ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ Γεώργιον τὸν ἐπίσκοπον σύροντες ἀνεῖλον. τότε Ἀθανάσιος πρός τινα παρθέ νον κρυπτόμενος χρόνον πολὺν ἐξελθὼν σύνοδον ἐκρότησε, καὶ τὰ κατὰ Νίκαιαν κυρώσας δόγματα τὰς ἐκκλησίας ἀπέλαβεν. οἱ δὲ Ἀρειανοὶ μετὰ Γεώργιον Λούκιον προεχειρίσαντο ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ ἐν οἴκῳ κοινῷ συνήγοντο. οἱ δὲ Ἕλληνες πολλοὺς Χριστιανοὺς ἀνεσταύρωσάν τε καὶ κατέσφαξαν. καὶ γὰρ ἐν Γάζῃ καὶ Ἀσκά λωνι πρεσβυτέρους καὶ ἀειπαρθένους ἀναιροῦντες ἀνέπτυσσον τὰ σπλάγχνα αὐτῶν καὶ κριθῆς πληροῦντες τοῖς χοίροις παρέβαλλον. ἐν δὲ Φοινίκῃ Κύριλλον διάκονον ἀνελόντες τοῦ ἥπατος αὐτοῦ ἀπε γεύσαντο. ὁ δὲ ἀνατεμὼν τὸν διάκονον καὶ τοῦ ἥπατος αὐτοῦ ἀπογευσάμενος τὴν μὲν γλῶσσαν σαπεῖσαν κατέρρευσε καὶ τοὺς ὀδόντας αὐτοῦ ἀπέβαλε τούς τε ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐπηρώθη καὶ πικρῶς βασανιζόμενος ἐτελεύτησε. καὶ τί δεῖ λέγειν τὰ καθ' ἑκάστην πόλιν καὶ χώραν κατὰ τὸν χρόνον ἐκεῖνον ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων γινό μενα; ὑπερβαίνουσι γὰρ καὶ λόγον πάντα καὶ γραφήν. τότε καὶ ὁ μέγας Βασίλειος τῆς Καππαδοκῶν ἐκκλησίας πρεσβύτερος ἦν, καὶ Λιβάνιος ὁ σοφιστὴς καὶ Πρόκλος καὶ Μάξιμος οἱ φιλό σοφοι. Τῷ δευτέρῳ ἔτει ὁ δυσσεβὴς Ἰουλιανὸς ἐνομοθέτει μὴ μετέ χειν Χριστιανοὺς Ἑλληνικῶν μαθημάτων. Ἀπολινάριος δὲ τῇ θείᾳ γραφῇ ὅλῃ χρησάμενος, πάντων τε ποιητῶν τοὺς χαρακτῆρας μιμούμενος, ἔγραψε παιδεύεσθαι παρὰ τῶν Χριστιανῶν. ὁ δὲ 1.534 παραβάτης τὰς τῶν Χριστιανῶν εὐποιίας μιμούμενος ἐκέλευσε ξέ νοις τε καὶ πτωχοῖς τὰ πρὸς τὴν χρείαν χορηγεῖσθαι, ἀπατῶν τοὺς ἁπλουστέρους. ταῖς δὲ εἰκόσιν αὐτοῦ ∆ία καὶ Ἄρεα καὶ Ἑρμῆν συγγράφεσθαι προσέταξε καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς δαίμονας, τοὺς δὲ ἀναβαλλομένους τὴν τούτων προσκύνησιν ὡς ἐχθροὺς βασιλι κοὺς τιμωρεῖσθαι. τῷ δὲ στρατῷ τὴν ῥόγαν διανέμων πῦρ ἐτίθει καὶ λιβανωτόν, καὶ θυμιᾶν τοὺς στρατιώτας ἠνάγκαζεν. Ἐν Καισαρείᾳ δὲ τῆς Φιλίππου, τῇ νῦν Παναΐδι, ἡ ὑπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ θεραπευθεῖσα αἱμόρρους ἀνδριάντα ἔστησε τῷ δε σπότῃ Χριστῷ, καὶ βοτάνη ἐφύετο ὑπὸ τὴν βάσιν τοῦ ἀνδριάντος πάσης νόσου ἀλεξητήριον. τῇ οὖν βοτάνῃ φθονήσας τὸν ἀνδριάντα κατάγει ὁ δείλαιος, καὶ ἀντ' αὐτοῦ ξόανον Ἰουλιανοῦ ἵστησι. καὶ τὸν μὲν τοῦ σωτῆρος ἀνδριάντα οἱ Χριστιανοὶ λαβόντες εἰς ἐκκλη σίαν ἔθεντο, τὸν δὲ τοῦ Ἰουλιανοῦ πῦρ κατελθὸν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἀνάλωσεν.

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