although
they were treated with all the honours
vol.
vol.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
Caes.
6),
(Tac. Ann. vi. 27, 45, xvi. 10; Juv. Sat. viii. 40. ) and in giving “ Venus Genetrix” as the word to
BLANDUS. ] As Blandus was merely the grand- his soldiers at the battles of Pharsalus and Munda,
son of a Roman eques of Tibur, the marriage was and subsequent writers and poets were ready
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enough to fall in with a belief which flattered the contains seventy-one epigrams which bear his name,
pride and exalted the origin of the imperial family. and in which the author appears as an imitator of
Though it would seem that the Julii first came earlier poems of the same kind. They are mostly
to Rome in the reign of Tullus Hostilius, the name of a descriptive character, and refer to works of art.
occurs in Roman legend as early as the time of Julianus probably lived in the reign of Justinian,
Romulus. It was Proculus Julius who was said for among his epigrams there are two upon Hy-
to have informed the sorrowing Roman people, patius, the nephew of the emperor Anasta-
after the strange departure of Romulus from the sius, who was put to death a. d. 532, by the
world, that their king had descended from heaven command of Justinian. Another epigram is written
and appeared to him, bidding him tell the people upon Joannes, the grandson of Hypatius. (Brunck,
to honour him in future as a god, under the name Anal. ii. 493 ; Jacobs, Anthol. Graec. ii. 195 ;
of Quirinus. (Liv. i. 16 ; Ov. Fust. ii. 499, &c. ) comp. xiii. p. 906. )
Some modern critics have inferred from this, that a 3. Of Caesareia in Cappadocia, was a contem-
few of the Julii might have settled in Rome in the porary of Aedesius, and a disciple of Maximus of
reign of the first king ; but considering the entirely Ephesus. He was one of the sophists of the time,
fabulous nature of the tale, and the circumstance and taught rhetoric at Athens, where he enjoyed a
that the celebrity of the Julia Gens in later times great reputation, and attracted youths from all
would easily lead to its connection with the earliest parts of the world, who were anxious to hear him
times of Roman story, no historical argument can and receive his instruction. It is not known
be drawn from the mere name occurring in this whether Julianus wrote any works or not. (Eunnp.
legend.
Vit. Soph. p. 68, &c. ed. Boisson. , and Wytten-
The family names of this gens in the time of the bach's notes, Ibid. p. 250, &c. )
republic are CAESAR, IULUS, MENTO, and LIBO, 4. A Greek grammarian, who, according to
of which the first three were undoubtedly patrician; Photius (Bibl. cod. 150), wrote a dictionary to the
but the only two families which obtained any ce ten Attic orators, entitled Λεξικών των παρά τοις
lebrity are those of lulus and Caesar, the former in Béka pótopos AÉLEWV kard Otoixelov ; but this,
the first and the latter in the last century of the like other similar works, is entirely lost. Fa-
republic. On coins the only names which we find bricius (Bibl. Gr. vol. vi. p. 245) considers its
are CAESAR and BURSIO, the latter of which does author to be the same as the Julianus to whom
not occur in ancient writers.
Phrynichus dedicates the fourth book of his
In the times of the empire we find au immense work.
(L. S. )
number of persons of the name of Julius ; but it JULIANUS, ANTOʻNIUS, & friend and
must not be supposed that they were connected by contemporary of A. Gellius, who speaks of him as
descent in any way with the Julia Gens ; for, in a public teacher of oratory, and praises him for his
consequence of the imperial family belonging to eloquence as well as for his knowledge of early
this gens, it became the name of their numerous literature. He appears to have also devoted him-
freedmen, and may have been assumed by many self to grammatical studies, the fruits of which he
other persons out of vanity and ostentation. An collected in his Commentarii, which, however, are
alphabetical list of the principal persons of the lost. (Gell. iv. I, ix. 15, xv. 1, xviii. 5, xix. 9,
name, with their cognomens, is given below. (JU- xx. 9. )
(L. S. ]
LIUS. ) (On the Julia Gens in general, see Klau-
JULIANUS, M. AQUI'LLIUS, was consul in
sen, Aeneas und die Penaten, vol. ii. p. 1059, &c. ; A. D. 38, the second year of the reign of Domitian.
Drumann's Rom, vol. iii. p. 114, &c. )
(Dion Cass. lix. 9; Frontin. de A quaed. 13. (L. S. ]
JULJANUS, historical. 1. A Roman general,
JULIA'NUS DI'DIUS. [Didius. ]
who distinguished himself in the war against the
Dacians in the reign of the emperor Domitian.
(Dion Cass. Ixvii. 10. )
2. A distinguished Roman of the time of the
emperor Commodus, who at first highly esteemed
him, and appointed him praefectus praetorio, but
afterwards treated him most disgracefully, and at
last ordered him to be put to death. (Dion Cass.
lxxii. 14 ; Lamprid. Commod. 7, 11. ) (L. S. ] JU’LIANUS, surnamed ECLANENSIS for the
JULIANUS ('lovalavós), literary. I. A Chal. sake of distinction, is conspicuous in the ecclesi-
daean, surnamed Theurgus, i. e. the magician, lived astical history of the fifth century as one of the
in the time of the emperor M. Aurelius, whose army ablest supporters of Pelagius. His father, Memo-
he is said to have saved from destruction by a rius or Memor, who is believed to have presided
shower of rain, which he called down by his magic over the see of Capua, was connected by close
power. Suidas (s. v. ) attributes to him also several friendship with St. Augustine and Paulinus of
works, viz. Seovpyuká, TEREOTIKá, and a collection Nola, the latter of whom celebrated the nuptials of
of oracles in hexameter verse. His pursuits show the son with la, daughter of Aemilius, bishop of
that he was a New Platonist, and it would seem Beneventum, in a poem breathing the warmest af-,
that he enjoyed a great reputation, since Porphy- fection towards the different members of the family.
rius wrote upon him a work in four books, which is Julianus early in life devoted himself to the duties
lost. A. Mai has discovered in Vatican MSS. of the priesthood, and after passing through the
three fragments relating to astrological subjects subordinate grades of reader, deacon, and probably
(Nova Script. Class. Collect. ii. p. 675), and attri- presbyter also, was ordained to the episcopal charge
buted to one Julianus of Laodiceia, whom Mai con- of Eclanum in Apulia, by Innocentius, about a. D.
siders to be the same as Julianus the Magician. 416. No suspicion seems to have attached to his
2. Surnamed the Egyptian, because he was for a orthodoxy until he refused to sign the Tractoria or
time governor of Egypt. The Greek Anthology | public denunciation of Coelestius and Pelagius, for-
De
COIN OP DIDIUS JULIANUS.
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warded by Zosimus in 418 to the authorities of the The Epistola ad Demetriadem, which really be
Christian church throughout the world. This act longs to Pelagius (PELAGIUS), and the Libellus
of contumacy, in which he was supported by many Fidei, published from a Verona MS. by Garnier,
prelates of Southern Italy and Sicily, was soon 8vo. Par. 1668, have been erroneously ascribed to
followed by the banishment of himself and his ad- Julianus.
herents in terms of the imperial edict Quitting (Gennad. de Vir. Nlust. 45. Every thing that
his native country, he repaired to Constantinople, can be ascertained with regard to Julianus or bis
but being driven from thence, took refuge in Cilicia productions will be found in the dissertations at-
with Theodorus of Mopsuestia, with whom he re- iached to Garnier's edition of Marius Mercator,
mained for several years. In 428 we find him and in the annotations upon those works of St.
again at Constantinople, patronised by Nestorius, Augustine directed specially against this heretic.
who addressed iwo letters to pope Coelestinus on See also Voss. Histor. Pelag. i. 6 ; Schönemann,
behalf of the exile. But in 429 Marius Mercator Bill. Patr. Lat. vol. i. $ 18, where much inform-
arrived, and by the charges contained in the Com- ation is exhibited in a condensed form. ) (W. R. ]
monitorium (MARIUS MERCATOR), presented to JULIANUS, FLAVIUS CLAU'DIUS, sur
Theodosius, procured the expulsion of the heretics named A POSTATA, " the Apostate," Roman em-
from the capital of the East. Having been formally peror, A. D. 361–363, was born at Constantinople on
condemned by the great council of Ephesus, in the 17th of November, A. D. 331 (332? ). He was
431, Julianus appears to have lived in obscurity the son of Julius Constantius by his second wife,
until 439, when he made a last desperate effort to Basilina, the grandson of Constantius Chlorus by his
recover his station and privileges ; but the attempt second wife, Theodora, and the nephew of Con-
having been frustrated by the firmness of Sixtus stantine the Great. (See the Genealogical Table,
III. , bis name from this time forward disappears Vol. I. pp. 831, 832. ]
entirely from history, if we except the statement of Julian and his elder brother, Flavius Julius
Gennadius, who records that he died under Valen- Gallus, who was the son of Julius Constantius by
tinian, and therefore not later than A. D. 455, his first wife, Galla, were the only members of the
baving previously swelled the number of his fol- imperial family whose lives were spared by Con-
lowers by distributing his whole fortune among the stantius II. , the son of Constantine the Great,
poor, to alleviate their sufferings during a famine. when, upon his accession, he ordered the massacre
No work of Julianus undoubtedly genuine has of all the male descendants of Constantine Chlorus
been transmitted to us entire, and his merits as an and his second wife, Theodora. Both Gallus and
author are known only from mutilated fragments Julian were of too tender an age to be dangerous to
contained in the writings of his theological oppo- Constantius, who accordingly spared their lives,
nents. We find traces of the following :-
but bad them educated in strict confinement at dif-
| Epistola ad Zosimum, composed probably in ferent places in Ionia and Bithynia, and after-
418, quoted by Marius Mercator in the sixth and wards in the castle of Macellum near Caesareiu;
ninth chapters of his Subnotationes (MARIUS Mer- and we know from Julian's own statement in his
CATOR). The different passages are collected and epistle to the senate and people of Athens, that,
arrauged by Garnier (Diss. V. ad Mar. Mercat.
although they were treated with all the honours
vol. i. p. 333). 2. Epistola communis ei cum plu- due to their birth, they felt most unhappy in their
rimis Pelagianis episcopis quam Thessalonioam mi- royal prison, being surrounded by spies who were
serunt. Such is the title given by St. Augustine to report the least of their words and actions to a
to the epistle which he undertook to refute, in four jealous and bloodthirsty tyrant. However, they
books, addressed to pope Bonifacius. The frag- received a careful and learned education, and were
ments will be found placed in order in Garnier's brought up in the principles of the Christian reli-
edition of Mercator. See above. 3. Libri IV. ad gion: their teachers were Nicocles Luco, a gram-
Turbantium episcopum, adversus librum primum Au- marian, and Ecebolus, a rhetorician, who acted
gustini de Concupiscentia, written about 419. Con under the superintendence of the eunuch Mardo
siderable fragments, of the first book especially, are nius, probably a pagan in secret, and of Eusebius,
included in the second book of Augustine, De an Arian, afterwards bishop of Nicomedeia. Gallus
Nuptiis, in his Libri VI. contra Julianuin, and in was the first who was released from his slavery by
his Opus Imperfectum. (Garnier, App. ad Diss. being appointed Caesar in A. D. 35), and govemor
VI. de Scriptis pro Haeresi Pelagiana, p. 388, and of the East, and it was through his mediation that
Diss. VI. p. 349. ) 4. Liber de Constantiae Bono Julian obtained more liberty. The conduct of Gal-
contra Perfidiain Manichaei, written, according to lus in his government, and his execution by Con-
Garnier, after the expulsion of Julianus from his stantius in A. D. 354, are detailed elsewhere.
bishopric. A few fragments have been preserved (CONSTANTIUS II. , p. 848. ) Julian was now in
by Beda. (See Garnier, as above. ) 5. Libri VIII. great danger, and the emperor would probably have
ad Florum Episcopuin adversus secundum librum sacrificed him to his jealousy but for the circum-
Augustini de Nuptiis et Concupiscentia, written, ac- stance that he had no male issue himself, and that
cording to Garnier, in Cilicia, and published about Julian was consequently the only other surviving
426. The first five buoks, or perhaps six, are given male of the imperial family. Constantius was sa-
entire in the Opus imperfectum of Augustine. tisfied with removing Julian from Asia to Italy,
(Garnier, Mercatoris Op. vol. i. p. 34. ) 6. Liber and kept him for some time in close confinement
de Amore, sive Commentarius in Cantica Canticorum, at Milan, where he lived surrounded by spies, and
mentioned by Beda alone, who remarks that it was in constant fear of sharing the fate of his brother.
divided into two books, the first being devoted to Owing to the mediation of the empress Eusebia, an
a dissertation on Love, the second embracing the excellent woman, who loved Julian with the tender-
commentary. For the fragments and various spe- ness of a sister, the young prince obtained an inter-
culations concerning the history of this piece, see view with Constantius, and having succeeded in
Garnier, Append. ad Diss. VI. vol. i. p. 388. calming the emperor's suspicions, was allowed to
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lead a private life at Athens (A. D. 355). Athens | in Dauphiné), be set out in the spring of 356 to
was then the centre of Greek learning, and there drive the barbarians back over the Rhine. In
Julian spent a short but delightful period in in- this campaign he fought against the Alemanni, the
tercourse with the most celebrated philosophers, invaders of Southern Gaul. He made their first
scholars, and artists of the time, and in the society acquaintance near Rheims, and paid dearly for it:
of a company of young men who were devoted to they fell unexpectedly upon his rear, and two
the pursuit of knowledge, and among whom was legions were cut to pieces. But as he nevertheless
Gregory Nazianzen, who became afterwards 80 advanced towards the Rhine, it seems that the
celebrated as a Christian orator. Among those principal disadvantage of his defeat was only a loss
learned men Julian was not the least in renown, of men. In the following spring (357) he intended
and he attracted universal attention both by his to cross the Rhine, and to penetrate into the
talents and his knowledge. The study of Greek country of the Alemanni ; and he would have
literature and philosophy was his principal and executed his plan but for the strange conduct of
favourite pursuit. He had been brought up by the Roman general Barbatio, who was on his
Greeks and among Greeks, and his predilection for march from Italy with an army of 25,000, or
whatever was Greek was of course very natural ; perhaps 30,000 men, in order to effect his junction
but he did not neglect Latin literature, and we with Julian. A sufficient number of bonts wns
learn from Ammianus Marcellinus (xvi. 5), that collected at Basel for the purpose of throwing a
he had a fair knowledge of the Latin language, bridge over the Rhine, and provisions were kept
which was then still spoken at the court of Con- there for supporting his troops, but Barbatio re-
stantinople. While Julian lived in happy retire mained inactive on the left bank, and proved his
ment at Athens, the emperor was bent down by treacherous designs by burning both the ships and
the weight of public affairs, and the empire being the provisions. In consequence of this, Julian
exposed to the invasions of the Persians in the east, was compelled to adopt the defensive, and the Ale-
and of the Germans and Sarmatians in the west manni, headed by their king Chnodomarius, crossed
and the north, he followed the advice of Eusebia, the Rhine, and took up a position near Strassburg
in opposition to his eunucho, in conferring the rank (August, 1. D. 357). ' Their army was 35,000
of Caesar upon Julian, who was accordingly, re strong: Julian had only 13,000 veterans ; but
called from Athens and summoned to Milan, where he did not decline the engagement, and, after
Constantius was residing. Julian obeyed reluc- a terrible conflict, he gained a decisive victory,
tantly: the Greek Minerva had more charms for wbich was chiefly owing to the personal valour
him than the Roman Jupiter, and he was too well of the young prince. Six thousand of the barba-
acquainted with the mythology of his ancestors rians remained on the field, perhaps as many were
not to know that even the embraces of Jupiter are slain in their flight or drowned in the Rhine, and
sometimes fatal. On the 6th of November, A. D. their king Chnodomarius was made prisoner. The
355, Julian was solemnly proclaimed Caesar, and loss of the Romans in this memorable battle is
received, as a guarantee of the emperor's sincerity, stated by Ammianus Marcellinus to have been
the hand of his sister Helena, who was the only 243 privates and four officers ; but this is
youngest child of Constantine the Great. At the not credible. Chnodomarius was well treated by
same time he was invested with the government of Julian, who sent him to the court of Constantius.
the provinces beyond the Alps, but some time (CHNODOMARIUS. )
elapsed before he set out for Gaul, where he was Immediately after this victory Julian invaded
to reside, and during this time he began to accas- the territory of the Alemanni on the right bank
tom himself to behave with that composure and of the Rhine, but more for the purpose of exbibit-
artificial dignity which suited a person of his ing his power than of making any permanent
exalted station, but which corresponded so little conquests, for he advanced only a few miles, and
with his taste and habits. When he first entered then returned and led bis troops against the
upon public life he was timid and clumsy, and he Franks, who had conquered the tract between the
used afterwards to laugh at his own awkwardness Scheldt, the Maas, and the Lower Rhine. Some
on those occasions. The internal peace of Gaol of the Frankish tribes he drove back into Germany,
was still suffering from the consequences of the and others he allowed to remain in Gaul, on con-
revolt of Sylvanus, and her frontiers were assailed dition of their submitting to the Roman authority.
by the Germans, who had crossed the Rhine, Upon this he invaded Germany a second time, in
burnt Strassburg, Trèves, Cologne, and many other 358, and a third time in 359, in order to make
flourishing cities, and made devastating inroads the Alemanni desist from all further attempts
into the midland provinces of Ganl. Accustomed upon Gaul, and he not only succeeded, but returned
to the quiet occupations of a scholar, Julian seemed with 20,000 Romans, whom the Alemanni had
little fitted for the command in the field, but he taken, and whom he compelled them to give up.
found an experienced lieutenant in the person of The peace of Gaul being now established, Julian
the veteran general Sallustius, and the wisdom he exerted himself to rebuild the cities that had been
had learned in the schools of Greece was not ruined on the frontiers of Germany: among those
merely theoretical philosophy, but virtue: tempe- rebuilt and fortified by him were Bingen, Ander-
rate to the extreme, he despised the luxuries of a nach, Bonn, and Neuss, and, without doubt,
Roman court, and his food and bed were not better Cologne also, as this city had been likewise laid in
than those of a common soldier. In his adminis- asbes by the Germans. As the constant inroads
tration he was just and forbearing; and never dis- of the barbarians had interrupted all agricultural
couraged by. adversity nor inflated by success, he pursuits in those districts, there was a great scarcity
showed himself worthy to reign over others, be- of corn, but Julian procured an abundant supply
cause he could reign over himself.
by sending six hundred barges to England, which
Julian arrived in Gaul late in A. D. 355, and, came back with a sufficient quantity for both
after having stayed the winter at Vienna (Vienne grinding and sowing. The minimum of the quan-
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tity of corn thus exported from England has been | Antioch, from whence he had superintended the
calculated at 120,000 quarters, and it has been Persian war. Informed of his plans, Julian re-
justly observed that the state of agriculture in this solved to thwart them by quickness and energy.
country must have been in an advanced condition, At Basel on the Rhine he divided his army into two
since so much corn could be exported nearly alto-corps: one, commanded by Novitta, was to march
gether at the same time. Julian bestowed the through Rhaetia and Noricum ; the other, under
same care upon the other provinces of Gaul, and the orders of Jovius and Jovinus, was to cross the
the country evidently recovered under his admi- Alps and march through the north-eastern corner of
nistration, although the power with which he was Italy: both divisions were to unite at Sirmium, a
a
invested was by no means extensive enough to town on the Savus, now Save. Julian, at the head
check the system of rapacity and oppression which of a small but chosen body of 3000 veterans, plunged
characterises the government of the later Roman into the wildernesses of the Marcian, now Black
emperors. His usual residence was Paris : he Forest ; and for some time the rival of Constantius
caused the large island in the Seine, which is now seemed to be lost in those dark glens whence issue
called l'île de la Cité, and whereupon stood ancient the sources of the Danube. But when Noritta,
Paris or Lutetia, to be surrounded by a stone wall Jovius and Jorinus arrived at Sirmium, they be-
and towers, and he built the Thermae Juliani, a held, to their joy and astonishment, the active
palace with baths, the extensive remains of which, Julinn with his band, who had descended the
"les thermes de Julien,” are still visible in the Danube and had already defeated the extreme out-
Rue de la Harpe, between the palace of Cluny and posts of Lucilian, the lieutenant of Constantius in
the School of Medicine.
ihose regions.
While Julian became more and more popular in From Sirmium Julian moved upon Constanti-
the provinces entrusted to his administration, and nople: the officers of Constantius fled before him,
his fame was spreading all over the empire, Con- but the inhabitants received him with acclamations
stantius once more gave way to the suggestions of of joy ; and at Athens, Rome, and other important
jealousy and distrust, and believed that Julian cities, he was either publicly or privately acknow-
aimed at popularity in order to gain for himself ledged as emperor, having previously sent expla-
the supreme authority. It happened that in A. D. natory letters to the authorities of those distant
360 the eastern provinces were again threatened places. Informed of the unexpected appearance of
by the Persians. Constantius commanded Julian Julian on the Danube, Constantius set out from
to send to the frontiers of Persia four of his best Syria to defend his capital ; and a terrible civil
legions and a number of picked soldiers from his war threatened to desolate Italy and the East,
other troops, apparently that he might be able to when Constantius suddenly died at Mopsocrene in
apprehend him, which it was impossible to do Cilicia, on the third of November, A. D. 36),
while he was surrounded by so many thousands of leaving the whole empire to the undisputed posses-
devoted warriors. This order surprised Julian in sion of Julian. On the 11th of December follow-
April 360: to obey it was to expose Gaul to new ing, Julian made his triumphal entrance into Con-
inroads of the Germans, and Britain to the m- stantinople. Shortly afterwards the mortal remains
vages of the Scots and Picts, whose incursions had of Constantius arrived in the Golden Horn, and
assumed such a dangerous character that Julian had were buried by Julian in the church of the Holy
just despatched Lupicinus to defend the island ; Apostles with great solemnity and magnificence.
but to disobey the order was open revolt. His While Julian thus gave a Christian burial to the
soldiers also were unwilling to march into Asia ; but body of his rival, he bad long ceased to be a
Julian, notwithstanding the dangers that awaited Christian himself. According to Julian's own
him, resolved to obey, and endeavoured to persuade statement (Epist. ii. ), he was a Christian up to his
his troops to submit quietly to the will of their twentieth year; and the manner in which he
master. His endeavours were in vain. In the praises his tutor, Mardonius, seems to imply that
night large bodies of soldiers surprised the palace Mardonius and the philosopher Maximus first caused
of Julian, and proclaimed him emperor. He had him to love the religion of the ancient Greeks,
hid himself in his apartments; but they soon dis- without, however, precisely estranging him from
covered him, dragged him, though respectfully, the Christian religion, which seems to have been
before the assembled troops, and compelled him to the effect of his study of the ancient Greek philo
accept the crown. Upon this he despatched Pen- sophers. The vile hypocrisy of the base and cruel
tadius and Eutherius with a conciliatory message Constantius, the conviction of Julian that Con-
to Constantius, in which, however, he positively stantine the Great bad at first protected, and after-
demanded to be acknowledged as Augustus, and to wards embraced, Christianity from mere political
be invested with the supreme authority in those motives, the persecuting spirit manifested equally
provinces over which he had ruled as Caesar, viz. by the Orthodox and Arians against one another,-
Gaul, Spain, and Britain. The conditions of Julian had also a great share in the conversion of Julian.
were haughtily declined ; and after a considerable During ten years he dissembled his apostacy,
time had elapsed in fruitless negotiations, which which was, however, known to many of his friends,
Julian employed in making two more expeditions and early suspected by his own brother Gallus ;
beyond the Rhine against the Franks and the and it was not till he had succeeded to the throne
Alemanni, he at last resolved to wage open war, that he publicly avowed himself a pagan. Our
and to march upon Constantinople. His army was space does not allow us to enter into the details
numerous and well disciplined, and the frontier of his apostacy, and we must refer the reader to
along the Rhine in an excellent state of defence: the sources cited below. His apostacy was no
his troops, who had refused leaving Gaul without sooner known than the Christians feared a cruel
him, now joyfully left it with him. Meanwhile, persecution, and the heathens hoped that paganism
Constantius likewise collected a strong army, and would be forced upon all who were not heathens ;
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Julian, in which he proclaimed a perfect toleration | down behind them by his orders, to convince the
of all parties. He was not, however, impartial in soldiers that a retreat was no plan of their master.
his conduct towards the Christians, since he pre- From Circesium he continued marching along the
ferred pagans as his civil and military officers, Euphrates till he came to that nartow neck of land
forbade the Christians to teach rhetoric and gram- which separates the Euphrates from the Tigris in
mar in the schools, and, in order to annoy them, the latitude of Ctesiphon. This portion of the route
allowed the Jews to rebuild their great temple at lies partly through a dreary desert, where the
Jerusalem*, and compelled the followers of Jesus to Romans experienced some trifling losses from the
pay money towards the erection of pagan temples, light Persian horse, who hovered round them, and
and, in some instances, to assist in building them. occasionally picked up stragglers or assailed the
Had Julian lived longer he would have seen that rear or the van. Previous to crossing the neck of
his apostacy was not followed by those effects, either land, Julian besieged, stormed, and burned Peri-
religious or political, which he lattered himself sabor, a large town on the Euphrates ; and while
would take place : he would have learnt that crossing that tract, he was delayed some timo
paganism, as he understood it, was not the religion under the walls of Maogamalcha, which he like
of the great mass of pagans, and that paganism, as wise took after a short siege and razed to the
it actually existed, was a rotten institution, desti- ground. Julian now accomplished a most difficult
tute of all religious and moral discipline; and he and extraordinary task: he conveyed his whole
would have witnessed that, however divided the fleet across the above-mentioned neck of land, by
Christians were, there was something better and an ancient canal called Nahar-Malcha, which, how-
healthier in Christianity than futile subjects for ever, he was obliged to deepen before he could
subtle controversies,
trust his ships in such a passage ; and, as the
Soon after his accession Julian set out for canal joined the Tigris below Ctesiphon, he looked
Antioch, where he remained some time busy in for and found an old cut, dug by Trajan, from
organising a powerful army for the invasion, and Colche to a place somewhat above Ctesiphon,
perhaps subjugation, of Persia. The people of which, however, he was likewise compelled to make
Antioch received him coolly: they were Christians, deeper and broader, so that at last his feet run
but also the most frivolous and luxurious people safely out into the Tigris. The canal of Nabar-
in the East, and they despised the straightforward Malcha is now called the canal of Saklawiyeh, or
and somewhat rustic manners of an emperor who Isa ; it joins the Tigris a little below Baghdad,
had formed his character among stern Celts and and it still affords a communication between the
Germans. At Antioch Julian made the acquaint- two rivers. Through a very skilful manoeuvre, he
ance of the orator Libanius ; but the latter was brought over his army on the left bank of the
unable to reconcile the emperor to the sort of life Tigris,-a passage not only extremely difficult on
which prevailed in that splendid city. He there account of the rapid current of the Tigris, but
fore withdrew to Tarsus in Cilicia, where he took rendered still more so through the stout resistance
up his winter-quarters. In the following spring of a Persian army, which, however, was routed and
(March, 363) he set out for Persia. The different pursued to the walls of Ctesiphon. The city would
corps of his army met at Hierapolis, where they have been entered by the Romans together with
passed the Euphrates on a bridge of boats, and the fugitive Persians, but for the death of their
thence moved to Carthae, now Harran, a town leader, Victor. Julian was now looking out for the
in Mesopotamia about fifty miles E. N. E. from arrival of Procopius and Sebastianus, and the main
Hierapolis. Julian's plan was to march upon army of the Armenian king, Arsaces or Tiranus.
Ctesiphon, but in order to deceive the Persian He was sadly disappointed: his lieutenants did
king, Sapor, he despatched Procopius and Sebas- not arrive, and Tiranus arranged for a body of his
tianus with 30,000 men against Nisibis (east of Armenians to desert which had joined the Romans
Carrhae), while he himself wheeled suddenly round previously, and which now secretly withdrew from
to the south, following the course of the Euphrates the Roman camp at Ctesiphon. Julian neverthe-
• on its left or Mesopotamian side. Procopius and less began the siege of that vast city, which was
Sebastianus were to join Arsaces Tiranus, king of defended by the flower of the Persian troops, king
Armenia, and Julian expected to effect a junction Sapor, with the main body of his army, not having
with their united forces in the environs of Ctesi- yet arrived from the interior of Persia. Unable to
phon ; but the treachery of Arsaces prevented the take the city, and desirous of dispersing the king's
accomplishment of his plan, as is mentioned below army, Julian imprudently followed the advice of a
[Compare Vol. I. p. 363, b. ). While Julian marched Persian nobleman of great distinction, who appeared
along the Euphrates in a south-eastern direction, in the Roman camp under the pretext of being
he was accompanied by a fleet of 1100 ships, fifty persecuted by Sapor, and who recommended the
of which were well-armed galleys, and the rest emperor to set out in search of the Persian king.
barges, carrying a vast supply of provisions and In doing so, Julian would have been compelled to
military stores. At Circesium, situated on the abandon his fleet on the Tigris to the attacks of a
confluence of the Chaboras, now the Khabur, with hostile and infuriated populace : this he avoided by
the Euphrates, he arrived at the Persian frontier, setting fire to his ships,--the best thing he could
which ran along the lower part of the Chaboras, have done, if his march into the interior of Persia
and he entered the Persian territory on the 7th of had been dictated by absolute necessity ; but
April, 363, at the head of an army of 65,000 as he was not obliged to leave the city, even suc-
veterans. The bridge of the Chaboras was broken cess would not have compensated for the loss of
1200 ships. In proportion as the Romans ad-
Respecting the alleged miracle which inter- vanced eastward, the country became more and
rupted the Jews in this work, see the judicious re more barren, and Sapor remained invisible. The
marks in Lardner's Jewish and Heathen Testimonies, treachery of the Persian noble was discovered after
rol. iv.
his secret flight, and Julian was obliged to retreat.
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He took the direction of the province of Corduene. I his contemporaries, and we trace in his writings the
The Persians now appeared : swarms of light influence of the Platonists no less than that of
horse were seen hovering round the army; larger Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, and so many other
bodies followed, and ere long Sapor, with his main writers of the golden age. There is, however, one
army, came in sight, and harassed fearfully the circumstance which reconciles the reader to many.
rear of the Romans. Still the Romans remained of the author's defects: Julian did not merely
victorious in many a bloody engagement, especially write for writing's sake, as so many of his contem-
at Maronga ; but it was in the month of June, and poraries did, but he shows that he bad bis subjects
the oppressive heat, and the want of water and really at heart, and that in literature as well as in
provisions had a pernicious effect upon the troops. business his extraordinary activity arose from the
On the 26th of June the Roman rear was suddenly wants of a powerful mind, which desired to improve
assailed by the Persians, and Julian, who com- itself and the world. In this respect Julian excites
manded the van, hastened to the relief of the rear our sympathy much more, for instance, than the
without his cuirass, the heat making a heavy rhetorician Libanius
armour almost insupportable. The Persians were The following are the editions of the entire works
repulsed, and filed in confusion. Julian was pursu- of Julian :-Juliani Imperatoris Opera quae extant,
ing them with the utmost bravery, when in the with a Latin translation by P. Martinius
and C. Can-
middle of the mélée he was shot by an arrow, that toclarus, and the author's life by Martinius, Paris,
pierced through his liver. He fell from his horse 1583, 8vo. : Juliani Opera, quae quidem reperiri po-
inortally wounded, and was conveyed to his tent. tuerunt, omnia, Paris, 1630, 4to. , by Petavius with
Feeling his death approaching, he took leave of his notes and a Latin translation. A better edition than
friends with touching words, but certainly not with either of the two preceding is:Juliani Impera-
that fine and elegant speech with which . Immianus toris Opera, quae supersunt omnia, Leipzig, 1696, fol. ,
Marcellinus (xxv. 3) makes him bid farewell to by Ezechiel Spanheim, who perused an excellent co-
the world.
dex, which enabled him to publish a much purer text
Jovian was chosen emperor in his stead, on the than Petavius, and he added the notes of Petavius
field of battle.
(Tac. Ann. vi. 27, 45, xvi. 10; Juv. Sat. viii. 40. ) and in giving “ Venus Genetrix” as the word to
BLANDUS. ] As Blandus was merely the grand- his soldiers at the battles of Pharsalus and Munda,
son of a Roman eques of Tibur, the marriage was and subsequent writers and poets were ready
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enough to fall in with a belief which flattered the contains seventy-one epigrams which bear his name,
pride and exalted the origin of the imperial family. and in which the author appears as an imitator of
Though it would seem that the Julii first came earlier poems of the same kind. They are mostly
to Rome in the reign of Tullus Hostilius, the name of a descriptive character, and refer to works of art.
occurs in Roman legend as early as the time of Julianus probably lived in the reign of Justinian,
Romulus. It was Proculus Julius who was said for among his epigrams there are two upon Hy-
to have informed the sorrowing Roman people, patius, the nephew of the emperor Anasta-
after the strange departure of Romulus from the sius, who was put to death a. d. 532, by the
world, that their king had descended from heaven command of Justinian. Another epigram is written
and appeared to him, bidding him tell the people upon Joannes, the grandson of Hypatius. (Brunck,
to honour him in future as a god, under the name Anal. ii. 493 ; Jacobs, Anthol. Graec. ii. 195 ;
of Quirinus. (Liv. i. 16 ; Ov. Fust. ii. 499, &c. ) comp. xiii. p. 906. )
Some modern critics have inferred from this, that a 3. Of Caesareia in Cappadocia, was a contem-
few of the Julii might have settled in Rome in the porary of Aedesius, and a disciple of Maximus of
reign of the first king ; but considering the entirely Ephesus. He was one of the sophists of the time,
fabulous nature of the tale, and the circumstance and taught rhetoric at Athens, where he enjoyed a
that the celebrity of the Julia Gens in later times great reputation, and attracted youths from all
would easily lead to its connection with the earliest parts of the world, who were anxious to hear him
times of Roman story, no historical argument can and receive his instruction. It is not known
be drawn from the mere name occurring in this whether Julianus wrote any works or not. (Eunnp.
legend.
Vit. Soph. p. 68, &c. ed. Boisson. , and Wytten-
The family names of this gens in the time of the bach's notes, Ibid. p. 250, &c. )
republic are CAESAR, IULUS, MENTO, and LIBO, 4. A Greek grammarian, who, according to
of which the first three were undoubtedly patrician; Photius (Bibl. cod. 150), wrote a dictionary to the
but the only two families which obtained any ce ten Attic orators, entitled Λεξικών των παρά τοις
lebrity are those of lulus and Caesar, the former in Béka pótopos AÉLEWV kard Otoixelov ; but this,
the first and the latter in the last century of the like other similar works, is entirely lost. Fa-
republic. On coins the only names which we find bricius (Bibl. Gr. vol. vi. p. 245) considers its
are CAESAR and BURSIO, the latter of which does author to be the same as the Julianus to whom
not occur in ancient writers.
Phrynichus dedicates the fourth book of his
In the times of the empire we find au immense work.
(L. S. )
number of persons of the name of Julius ; but it JULIANUS, ANTOʻNIUS, & friend and
must not be supposed that they were connected by contemporary of A. Gellius, who speaks of him as
descent in any way with the Julia Gens ; for, in a public teacher of oratory, and praises him for his
consequence of the imperial family belonging to eloquence as well as for his knowledge of early
this gens, it became the name of their numerous literature. He appears to have also devoted him-
freedmen, and may have been assumed by many self to grammatical studies, the fruits of which he
other persons out of vanity and ostentation. An collected in his Commentarii, which, however, are
alphabetical list of the principal persons of the lost. (Gell. iv. I, ix. 15, xv. 1, xviii. 5, xix. 9,
name, with their cognomens, is given below. (JU- xx. 9. )
(L. S. ]
LIUS. ) (On the Julia Gens in general, see Klau-
JULIANUS, M. AQUI'LLIUS, was consul in
sen, Aeneas und die Penaten, vol. ii. p. 1059, &c. ; A. D. 38, the second year of the reign of Domitian.
Drumann's Rom, vol. iii. p. 114, &c. )
(Dion Cass. lix. 9; Frontin. de A quaed. 13. (L. S. ]
JULJANUS, historical. 1. A Roman general,
JULIA'NUS DI'DIUS. [Didius. ]
who distinguished himself in the war against the
Dacians in the reign of the emperor Domitian.
(Dion Cass. Ixvii. 10. )
2. A distinguished Roman of the time of the
emperor Commodus, who at first highly esteemed
him, and appointed him praefectus praetorio, but
afterwards treated him most disgracefully, and at
last ordered him to be put to death. (Dion Cass.
lxxii. 14 ; Lamprid. Commod. 7, 11. ) (L. S. ] JU’LIANUS, surnamed ECLANENSIS for the
JULIANUS ('lovalavós), literary. I. A Chal. sake of distinction, is conspicuous in the ecclesi-
daean, surnamed Theurgus, i. e. the magician, lived astical history of the fifth century as one of the
in the time of the emperor M. Aurelius, whose army ablest supporters of Pelagius. His father, Memo-
he is said to have saved from destruction by a rius or Memor, who is believed to have presided
shower of rain, which he called down by his magic over the see of Capua, was connected by close
power. Suidas (s. v. ) attributes to him also several friendship with St. Augustine and Paulinus of
works, viz. Seovpyuká, TEREOTIKá, and a collection Nola, the latter of whom celebrated the nuptials of
of oracles in hexameter verse. His pursuits show the son with la, daughter of Aemilius, bishop of
that he was a New Platonist, and it would seem Beneventum, in a poem breathing the warmest af-,
that he enjoyed a great reputation, since Porphy- fection towards the different members of the family.
rius wrote upon him a work in four books, which is Julianus early in life devoted himself to the duties
lost. A. Mai has discovered in Vatican MSS. of the priesthood, and after passing through the
three fragments relating to astrological subjects subordinate grades of reader, deacon, and probably
(Nova Script. Class. Collect. ii. p. 675), and attri- presbyter also, was ordained to the episcopal charge
buted to one Julianus of Laodiceia, whom Mai con- of Eclanum in Apulia, by Innocentius, about a. D.
siders to be the same as Julianus the Magician. 416. No suspicion seems to have attached to his
2. Surnamed the Egyptian, because he was for a orthodoxy until he refused to sign the Tractoria or
time governor of Egypt. The Greek Anthology | public denunciation of Coelestius and Pelagius, for-
De
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warded by Zosimus in 418 to the authorities of the The Epistola ad Demetriadem, which really be
Christian church throughout the world. This act longs to Pelagius (PELAGIUS), and the Libellus
of contumacy, in which he was supported by many Fidei, published from a Verona MS. by Garnier,
prelates of Southern Italy and Sicily, was soon 8vo. Par. 1668, have been erroneously ascribed to
followed by the banishment of himself and his ad- Julianus.
herents in terms of the imperial edict Quitting (Gennad. de Vir. Nlust. 45. Every thing that
his native country, he repaired to Constantinople, can be ascertained with regard to Julianus or bis
but being driven from thence, took refuge in Cilicia productions will be found in the dissertations at-
with Theodorus of Mopsuestia, with whom he re- iached to Garnier's edition of Marius Mercator,
mained for several years. In 428 we find him and in the annotations upon those works of St.
again at Constantinople, patronised by Nestorius, Augustine directed specially against this heretic.
who addressed iwo letters to pope Coelestinus on See also Voss. Histor. Pelag. i. 6 ; Schönemann,
behalf of the exile. But in 429 Marius Mercator Bill. Patr. Lat. vol. i. $ 18, where much inform-
arrived, and by the charges contained in the Com- ation is exhibited in a condensed form. ) (W. R. ]
monitorium (MARIUS MERCATOR), presented to JULIANUS, FLAVIUS CLAU'DIUS, sur
Theodosius, procured the expulsion of the heretics named A POSTATA, " the Apostate," Roman em-
from the capital of the East. Having been formally peror, A. D. 361–363, was born at Constantinople on
condemned by the great council of Ephesus, in the 17th of November, A. D. 331 (332? ). He was
431, Julianus appears to have lived in obscurity the son of Julius Constantius by his second wife,
until 439, when he made a last desperate effort to Basilina, the grandson of Constantius Chlorus by his
recover his station and privileges ; but the attempt second wife, Theodora, and the nephew of Con-
having been frustrated by the firmness of Sixtus stantine the Great. (See the Genealogical Table,
III. , bis name from this time forward disappears Vol. I. pp. 831, 832. ]
entirely from history, if we except the statement of Julian and his elder brother, Flavius Julius
Gennadius, who records that he died under Valen- Gallus, who was the son of Julius Constantius by
tinian, and therefore not later than A. D. 455, his first wife, Galla, were the only members of the
baving previously swelled the number of his fol- imperial family whose lives were spared by Con-
lowers by distributing his whole fortune among the stantius II. , the son of Constantine the Great,
poor, to alleviate their sufferings during a famine. when, upon his accession, he ordered the massacre
No work of Julianus undoubtedly genuine has of all the male descendants of Constantine Chlorus
been transmitted to us entire, and his merits as an and his second wife, Theodora. Both Gallus and
author are known only from mutilated fragments Julian were of too tender an age to be dangerous to
contained in the writings of his theological oppo- Constantius, who accordingly spared their lives,
nents. We find traces of the following :-
but bad them educated in strict confinement at dif-
| Epistola ad Zosimum, composed probably in ferent places in Ionia and Bithynia, and after-
418, quoted by Marius Mercator in the sixth and wards in the castle of Macellum near Caesareiu;
ninth chapters of his Subnotationes (MARIUS Mer- and we know from Julian's own statement in his
CATOR). The different passages are collected and epistle to the senate and people of Athens, that,
arrauged by Garnier (Diss. V. ad Mar. Mercat.
although they were treated with all the honours
vol. i. p. 333). 2. Epistola communis ei cum plu- due to their birth, they felt most unhappy in their
rimis Pelagianis episcopis quam Thessalonioam mi- royal prison, being surrounded by spies who were
serunt. Such is the title given by St. Augustine to report the least of their words and actions to a
to the epistle which he undertook to refute, in four jealous and bloodthirsty tyrant. However, they
books, addressed to pope Bonifacius. The frag- received a careful and learned education, and were
ments will be found placed in order in Garnier's brought up in the principles of the Christian reli-
edition of Mercator. See above. 3. Libri IV. ad gion: their teachers were Nicocles Luco, a gram-
Turbantium episcopum, adversus librum primum Au- marian, and Ecebolus, a rhetorician, who acted
gustini de Concupiscentia, written about 419. Con under the superintendence of the eunuch Mardo
siderable fragments, of the first book especially, are nius, probably a pagan in secret, and of Eusebius,
included in the second book of Augustine, De an Arian, afterwards bishop of Nicomedeia. Gallus
Nuptiis, in his Libri VI. contra Julianuin, and in was the first who was released from his slavery by
his Opus Imperfectum. (Garnier, App. ad Diss. being appointed Caesar in A. D. 35), and govemor
VI. de Scriptis pro Haeresi Pelagiana, p. 388, and of the East, and it was through his mediation that
Diss. VI. p. 349. ) 4. Liber de Constantiae Bono Julian obtained more liberty. The conduct of Gal-
contra Perfidiain Manichaei, written, according to lus in his government, and his execution by Con-
Garnier, after the expulsion of Julianus from his stantius in A. D. 354, are detailed elsewhere.
bishopric. A few fragments have been preserved (CONSTANTIUS II. , p. 848. ) Julian was now in
by Beda. (See Garnier, as above. ) 5. Libri VIII. great danger, and the emperor would probably have
ad Florum Episcopuin adversus secundum librum sacrificed him to his jealousy but for the circum-
Augustini de Nuptiis et Concupiscentia, written, ac- stance that he had no male issue himself, and that
cording to Garnier, in Cilicia, and published about Julian was consequently the only other surviving
426. The first five buoks, or perhaps six, are given male of the imperial family. Constantius was sa-
entire in the Opus imperfectum of Augustine. tisfied with removing Julian from Asia to Italy,
(Garnier, Mercatoris Op. vol. i. p. 34. ) 6. Liber and kept him for some time in close confinement
de Amore, sive Commentarius in Cantica Canticorum, at Milan, where he lived surrounded by spies, and
mentioned by Beda alone, who remarks that it was in constant fear of sharing the fate of his brother.
divided into two books, the first being devoted to Owing to the mediation of the empress Eusebia, an
a dissertation on Love, the second embracing the excellent woman, who loved Julian with the tender-
commentary. For the fragments and various spe- ness of a sister, the young prince obtained an inter-
culations concerning the history of this piece, see view with Constantius, and having succeeded in
Garnier, Append. ad Diss. VI. vol. i. p. 388. calming the emperor's suspicions, was allowed to
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lead a private life at Athens (A. D. 355). Athens | in Dauphiné), be set out in the spring of 356 to
was then the centre of Greek learning, and there drive the barbarians back over the Rhine. In
Julian spent a short but delightful period in in- this campaign he fought against the Alemanni, the
tercourse with the most celebrated philosophers, invaders of Southern Gaul. He made their first
scholars, and artists of the time, and in the society acquaintance near Rheims, and paid dearly for it:
of a company of young men who were devoted to they fell unexpectedly upon his rear, and two
the pursuit of knowledge, and among whom was legions were cut to pieces. But as he nevertheless
Gregory Nazianzen, who became afterwards 80 advanced towards the Rhine, it seems that the
celebrated as a Christian orator. Among those principal disadvantage of his defeat was only a loss
learned men Julian was not the least in renown, of men. In the following spring (357) he intended
and he attracted universal attention both by his to cross the Rhine, and to penetrate into the
talents and his knowledge. The study of Greek country of the Alemanni ; and he would have
literature and philosophy was his principal and executed his plan but for the strange conduct of
favourite pursuit. He had been brought up by the Roman general Barbatio, who was on his
Greeks and among Greeks, and his predilection for march from Italy with an army of 25,000, or
whatever was Greek was of course very natural ; perhaps 30,000 men, in order to effect his junction
but he did not neglect Latin literature, and we with Julian. A sufficient number of bonts wns
learn from Ammianus Marcellinus (xvi. 5), that collected at Basel for the purpose of throwing a
he had a fair knowledge of the Latin language, bridge over the Rhine, and provisions were kept
which was then still spoken at the court of Con- there for supporting his troops, but Barbatio re-
stantinople. While Julian lived in happy retire mained inactive on the left bank, and proved his
ment at Athens, the emperor was bent down by treacherous designs by burning both the ships and
the weight of public affairs, and the empire being the provisions. In consequence of this, Julian
exposed to the invasions of the Persians in the east, was compelled to adopt the defensive, and the Ale-
and of the Germans and Sarmatians in the west manni, headed by their king Chnodomarius, crossed
and the north, he followed the advice of Eusebia, the Rhine, and took up a position near Strassburg
in opposition to his eunucho, in conferring the rank (August, 1. D. 357). ' Their army was 35,000
of Caesar upon Julian, who was accordingly, re strong: Julian had only 13,000 veterans ; but
called from Athens and summoned to Milan, where he did not decline the engagement, and, after
Constantius was residing. Julian obeyed reluc- a terrible conflict, he gained a decisive victory,
tantly: the Greek Minerva had more charms for wbich was chiefly owing to the personal valour
him than the Roman Jupiter, and he was too well of the young prince. Six thousand of the barba-
acquainted with the mythology of his ancestors rians remained on the field, perhaps as many were
not to know that even the embraces of Jupiter are slain in their flight or drowned in the Rhine, and
sometimes fatal. On the 6th of November, A. D. their king Chnodomarius was made prisoner. The
355, Julian was solemnly proclaimed Caesar, and loss of the Romans in this memorable battle is
received, as a guarantee of the emperor's sincerity, stated by Ammianus Marcellinus to have been
the hand of his sister Helena, who was the only 243 privates and four officers ; but this is
youngest child of Constantine the Great. At the not credible. Chnodomarius was well treated by
same time he was invested with the government of Julian, who sent him to the court of Constantius.
the provinces beyond the Alps, but some time (CHNODOMARIUS. )
elapsed before he set out for Gaul, where he was Immediately after this victory Julian invaded
to reside, and during this time he began to accas- the territory of the Alemanni on the right bank
tom himself to behave with that composure and of the Rhine, but more for the purpose of exbibit-
artificial dignity which suited a person of his ing his power than of making any permanent
exalted station, but which corresponded so little conquests, for he advanced only a few miles, and
with his taste and habits. When he first entered then returned and led bis troops against the
upon public life he was timid and clumsy, and he Franks, who had conquered the tract between the
used afterwards to laugh at his own awkwardness Scheldt, the Maas, and the Lower Rhine. Some
on those occasions. The internal peace of Gaol of the Frankish tribes he drove back into Germany,
was still suffering from the consequences of the and others he allowed to remain in Gaul, on con-
revolt of Sylvanus, and her frontiers were assailed dition of their submitting to the Roman authority.
by the Germans, who had crossed the Rhine, Upon this he invaded Germany a second time, in
burnt Strassburg, Trèves, Cologne, and many other 358, and a third time in 359, in order to make
flourishing cities, and made devastating inroads the Alemanni desist from all further attempts
into the midland provinces of Ganl. Accustomed upon Gaul, and he not only succeeded, but returned
to the quiet occupations of a scholar, Julian seemed with 20,000 Romans, whom the Alemanni had
little fitted for the command in the field, but he taken, and whom he compelled them to give up.
found an experienced lieutenant in the person of The peace of Gaul being now established, Julian
the veteran general Sallustius, and the wisdom he exerted himself to rebuild the cities that had been
had learned in the schools of Greece was not ruined on the frontiers of Germany: among those
merely theoretical philosophy, but virtue: tempe- rebuilt and fortified by him were Bingen, Ander-
rate to the extreme, he despised the luxuries of a nach, Bonn, and Neuss, and, without doubt,
Roman court, and his food and bed were not better Cologne also, as this city had been likewise laid in
than those of a common soldier. In his adminis- asbes by the Germans. As the constant inroads
tration he was just and forbearing; and never dis- of the barbarians had interrupted all agricultural
couraged by. adversity nor inflated by success, he pursuits in those districts, there was a great scarcity
showed himself worthy to reign over others, be- of corn, but Julian procured an abundant supply
cause he could reign over himself.
by sending six hundred barges to England, which
Julian arrived in Gaul late in A. D. 355, and, came back with a sufficient quantity for both
after having stayed the winter at Vienna (Vienne grinding and sowing. The minimum of the quan-
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tity of corn thus exported from England has been | Antioch, from whence he had superintended the
calculated at 120,000 quarters, and it has been Persian war. Informed of his plans, Julian re-
justly observed that the state of agriculture in this solved to thwart them by quickness and energy.
country must have been in an advanced condition, At Basel on the Rhine he divided his army into two
since so much corn could be exported nearly alto-corps: one, commanded by Novitta, was to march
gether at the same time. Julian bestowed the through Rhaetia and Noricum ; the other, under
same care upon the other provinces of Gaul, and the orders of Jovius and Jovinus, was to cross the
the country evidently recovered under his admi- Alps and march through the north-eastern corner of
nistration, although the power with which he was Italy: both divisions were to unite at Sirmium, a
a
invested was by no means extensive enough to town on the Savus, now Save. Julian, at the head
check the system of rapacity and oppression which of a small but chosen body of 3000 veterans, plunged
characterises the government of the later Roman into the wildernesses of the Marcian, now Black
emperors. His usual residence was Paris : he Forest ; and for some time the rival of Constantius
caused the large island in the Seine, which is now seemed to be lost in those dark glens whence issue
called l'île de la Cité, and whereupon stood ancient the sources of the Danube. But when Noritta,
Paris or Lutetia, to be surrounded by a stone wall Jovius and Jorinus arrived at Sirmium, they be-
and towers, and he built the Thermae Juliani, a held, to their joy and astonishment, the active
palace with baths, the extensive remains of which, Julinn with his band, who had descended the
"les thermes de Julien,” are still visible in the Danube and had already defeated the extreme out-
Rue de la Harpe, between the palace of Cluny and posts of Lucilian, the lieutenant of Constantius in
the School of Medicine.
ihose regions.
While Julian became more and more popular in From Sirmium Julian moved upon Constanti-
the provinces entrusted to his administration, and nople: the officers of Constantius fled before him,
his fame was spreading all over the empire, Con- but the inhabitants received him with acclamations
stantius once more gave way to the suggestions of of joy ; and at Athens, Rome, and other important
jealousy and distrust, and believed that Julian cities, he was either publicly or privately acknow-
aimed at popularity in order to gain for himself ledged as emperor, having previously sent expla-
the supreme authority. It happened that in A. D. natory letters to the authorities of those distant
360 the eastern provinces were again threatened places. Informed of the unexpected appearance of
by the Persians. Constantius commanded Julian Julian on the Danube, Constantius set out from
to send to the frontiers of Persia four of his best Syria to defend his capital ; and a terrible civil
legions and a number of picked soldiers from his war threatened to desolate Italy and the East,
other troops, apparently that he might be able to when Constantius suddenly died at Mopsocrene in
apprehend him, which it was impossible to do Cilicia, on the third of November, A. D. 36),
while he was surrounded by so many thousands of leaving the whole empire to the undisputed posses-
devoted warriors. This order surprised Julian in sion of Julian. On the 11th of December follow-
April 360: to obey it was to expose Gaul to new ing, Julian made his triumphal entrance into Con-
inroads of the Germans, and Britain to the m- stantinople. Shortly afterwards the mortal remains
vages of the Scots and Picts, whose incursions had of Constantius arrived in the Golden Horn, and
assumed such a dangerous character that Julian had were buried by Julian in the church of the Holy
just despatched Lupicinus to defend the island ; Apostles with great solemnity and magnificence.
but to disobey the order was open revolt. His While Julian thus gave a Christian burial to the
soldiers also were unwilling to march into Asia ; but body of his rival, he bad long ceased to be a
Julian, notwithstanding the dangers that awaited Christian himself. According to Julian's own
him, resolved to obey, and endeavoured to persuade statement (Epist. ii. ), he was a Christian up to his
his troops to submit quietly to the will of their twentieth year; and the manner in which he
master. His endeavours were in vain. In the praises his tutor, Mardonius, seems to imply that
night large bodies of soldiers surprised the palace Mardonius and the philosopher Maximus first caused
of Julian, and proclaimed him emperor. He had him to love the religion of the ancient Greeks,
hid himself in his apartments; but they soon dis- without, however, precisely estranging him from
covered him, dragged him, though respectfully, the Christian religion, which seems to have been
before the assembled troops, and compelled him to the effect of his study of the ancient Greek philo
accept the crown. Upon this he despatched Pen- sophers. The vile hypocrisy of the base and cruel
tadius and Eutherius with a conciliatory message Constantius, the conviction of Julian that Con-
to Constantius, in which, however, he positively stantine the Great bad at first protected, and after-
demanded to be acknowledged as Augustus, and to wards embraced, Christianity from mere political
be invested with the supreme authority in those motives, the persecuting spirit manifested equally
provinces over which he had ruled as Caesar, viz. by the Orthodox and Arians against one another,-
Gaul, Spain, and Britain. The conditions of Julian had also a great share in the conversion of Julian.
were haughtily declined ; and after a considerable During ten years he dissembled his apostacy,
time had elapsed in fruitless negotiations, which which was, however, known to many of his friends,
Julian employed in making two more expeditions and early suspected by his own brother Gallus ;
beyond the Rhine against the Franks and the and it was not till he had succeeded to the throne
Alemanni, he at last resolved to wage open war, that he publicly avowed himself a pagan. Our
and to march upon Constantinople. His army was space does not allow us to enter into the details
numerous and well disciplined, and the frontier of his apostacy, and we must refer the reader to
along the Rhine in an excellent state of defence: the sources cited below. His apostacy was no
his troops, who had refused leaving Gaul without sooner known than the Christians feared a cruel
him, now joyfully left it with him. Meanwhile, persecution, and the heathens hoped that paganism
Constantius likewise collected a strong army, and would be forced upon all who were not heathens ;
gave directions for the defence of his capital from | but they were both disappointed by an edict of
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Julian, in which he proclaimed a perfect toleration | down behind them by his orders, to convince the
of all parties. He was not, however, impartial in soldiers that a retreat was no plan of their master.
his conduct towards the Christians, since he pre- From Circesium he continued marching along the
ferred pagans as his civil and military officers, Euphrates till he came to that nartow neck of land
forbade the Christians to teach rhetoric and gram- which separates the Euphrates from the Tigris in
mar in the schools, and, in order to annoy them, the latitude of Ctesiphon. This portion of the route
allowed the Jews to rebuild their great temple at lies partly through a dreary desert, where the
Jerusalem*, and compelled the followers of Jesus to Romans experienced some trifling losses from the
pay money towards the erection of pagan temples, light Persian horse, who hovered round them, and
and, in some instances, to assist in building them. occasionally picked up stragglers or assailed the
Had Julian lived longer he would have seen that rear or the van. Previous to crossing the neck of
his apostacy was not followed by those effects, either land, Julian besieged, stormed, and burned Peri-
religious or political, which he lattered himself sabor, a large town on the Euphrates ; and while
would take place : he would have learnt that crossing that tract, he was delayed some timo
paganism, as he understood it, was not the religion under the walls of Maogamalcha, which he like
of the great mass of pagans, and that paganism, as wise took after a short siege and razed to the
it actually existed, was a rotten institution, desti- ground. Julian now accomplished a most difficult
tute of all religious and moral discipline; and he and extraordinary task: he conveyed his whole
would have witnessed that, however divided the fleet across the above-mentioned neck of land, by
Christians were, there was something better and an ancient canal called Nahar-Malcha, which, how-
healthier in Christianity than futile subjects for ever, he was obliged to deepen before he could
subtle controversies,
trust his ships in such a passage ; and, as the
Soon after his accession Julian set out for canal joined the Tigris below Ctesiphon, he looked
Antioch, where he remained some time busy in for and found an old cut, dug by Trajan, from
organising a powerful army for the invasion, and Colche to a place somewhat above Ctesiphon,
perhaps subjugation, of Persia. The people of which, however, he was likewise compelled to make
Antioch received him coolly: they were Christians, deeper and broader, so that at last his feet run
but also the most frivolous and luxurious people safely out into the Tigris. The canal of Nabar-
in the East, and they despised the straightforward Malcha is now called the canal of Saklawiyeh, or
and somewhat rustic manners of an emperor who Isa ; it joins the Tigris a little below Baghdad,
had formed his character among stern Celts and and it still affords a communication between the
Germans. At Antioch Julian made the acquaint- two rivers. Through a very skilful manoeuvre, he
ance of the orator Libanius ; but the latter was brought over his army on the left bank of the
unable to reconcile the emperor to the sort of life Tigris,-a passage not only extremely difficult on
which prevailed in that splendid city. He there account of the rapid current of the Tigris, but
fore withdrew to Tarsus in Cilicia, where he took rendered still more so through the stout resistance
up his winter-quarters. In the following spring of a Persian army, which, however, was routed and
(March, 363) he set out for Persia. The different pursued to the walls of Ctesiphon. The city would
corps of his army met at Hierapolis, where they have been entered by the Romans together with
passed the Euphrates on a bridge of boats, and the fugitive Persians, but for the death of their
thence moved to Carthae, now Harran, a town leader, Victor. Julian was now looking out for the
in Mesopotamia about fifty miles E. N. E. from arrival of Procopius and Sebastianus, and the main
Hierapolis. Julian's plan was to march upon army of the Armenian king, Arsaces or Tiranus.
Ctesiphon, but in order to deceive the Persian He was sadly disappointed: his lieutenants did
king, Sapor, he despatched Procopius and Sebas- not arrive, and Tiranus arranged for a body of his
tianus with 30,000 men against Nisibis (east of Armenians to desert which had joined the Romans
Carrhae), while he himself wheeled suddenly round previously, and which now secretly withdrew from
to the south, following the course of the Euphrates the Roman camp at Ctesiphon. Julian neverthe-
• on its left or Mesopotamian side. Procopius and less began the siege of that vast city, which was
Sebastianus were to join Arsaces Tiranus, king of defended by the flower of the Persian troops, king
Armenia, and Julian expected to effect a junction Sapor, with the main body of his army, not having
with their united forces in the environs of Ctesi- yet arrived from the interior of Persia. Unable to
phon ; but the treachery of Arsaces prevented the take the city, and desirous of dispersing the king's
accomplishment of his plan, as is mentioned below army, Julian imprudently followed the advice of a
[Compare Vol. I. p. 363, b. ). While Julian marched Persian nobleman of great distinction, who appeared
along the Euphrates in a south-eastern direction, in the Roman camp under the pretext of being
he was accompanied by a fleet of 1100 ships, fifty persecuted by Sapor, and who recommended the
of which were well-armed galleys, and the rest emperor to set out in search of the Persian king.
barges, carrying a vast supply of provisions and In doing so, Julian would have been compelled to
military stores. At Circesium, situated on the abandon his fleet on the Tigris to the attacks of a
confluence of the Chaboras, now the Khabur, with hostile and infuriated populace : this he avoided by
the Euphrates, he arrived at the Persian frontier, setting fire to his ships,--the best thing he could
which ran along the lower part of the Chaboras, have done, if his march into the interior of Persia
and he entered the Persian territory on the 7th of had been dictated by absolute necessity ; but
April, 363, at the head of an army of 65,000 as he was not obliged to leave the city, even suc-
veterans. The bridge of the Chaboras was broken cess would not have compensated for the loss of
1200 ships. In proportion as the Romans ad-
Respecting the alleged miracle which inter- vanced eastward, the country became more and
rupted the Jews in this work, see the judicious re more barren, and Sapor remained invisible. The
marks in Lardner's Jewish and Heathen Testimonies, treachery of the Persian noble was discovered after
rol. iv.
his secret flight, and Julian was obliged to retreat.
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He took the direction of the province of Corduene. I his contemporaries, and we trace in his writings the
The Persians now appeared : swarms of light influence of the Platonists no less than that of
horse were seen hovering round the army; larger Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, and so many other
bodies followed, and ere long Sapor, with his main writers of the golden age. There is, however, one
army, came in sight, and harassed fearfully the circumstance which reconciles the reader to many.
rear of the Romans. Still the Romans remained of the author's defects: Julian did not merely
victorious in many a bloody engagement, especially write for writing's sake, as so many of his contem-
at Maronga ; but it was in the month of June, and poraries did, but he shows that he bad bis subjects
the oppressive heat, and the want of water and really at heart, and that in literature as well as in
provisions had a pernicious effect upon the troops. business his extraordinary activity arose from the
On the 26th of June the Roman rear was suddenly wants of a powerful mind, which desired to improve
assailed by the Persians, and Julian, who com- itself and the world. In this respect Julian excites
manded the van, hastened to the relief of the rear our sympathy much more, for instance, than the
without his cuirass, the heat making a heavy rhetorician Libanius
armour almost insupportable. The Persians were The following are the editions of the entire works
repulsed, and filed in confusion. Julian was pursu- of Julian :-Juliani Imperatoris Opera quae extant,
ing them with the utmost bravery, when in the with a Latin translation by P. Martinius
and C. Can-
middle of the mélée he was shot by an arrow, that toclarus, and the author's life by Martinius, Paris,
pierced through his liver. He fell from his horse 1583, 8vo. : Juliani Opera, quae quidem reperiri po-
inortally wounded, and was conveyed to his tent. tuerunt, omnia, Paris, 1630, 4to. , by Petavius with
Feeling his death approaching, he took leave of his notes and a Latin translation. A better edition than
friends with touching words, but certainly not with either of the two preceding is:Juliani Impera-
that fine and elegant speech with which . Immianus toris Opera, quae supersunt omnia, Leipzig, 1696, fol. ,
Marcellinus (xxv. 3) makes him bid farewell to by Ezechiel Spanheim, who perused an excellent co-
the world.
dex, which enabled him to publish a much purer text
Jovian was chosen emperor in his stead, on the than Petavius, and he added the notes of Petavius
field of battle.
