Julian

“ Gregory Nazianzen, Oration 4. 81.↑ Whether because of mutilation or lack of context, the two first sentences are unintelligible; we do not know the object of the verbs or what is meant by the reference to the gods; but evidently Julian did not like his portrait.↑ Sozomen 5. 18 says that Julian, in order to ridicule the Christian substitutes for the Greek classics, composed chiefly by Apollinaris, after Julian had forbidden Christians to teach the originals, wrote these words to the Bishops. Their answer was as follows: "You have read, but you have not understood ”

“ The original is Aeschylus, Myrmidons, frag. 139.↑ i.e. the Christians.↑ This is apparently a criticism of that lack of political instinct in the Christians of which Julian speaks in his treatise Against the Galilaeans, fragment 5. Hence Neumann regards the above fragment as derived from a lost part of the treatise.↑ In 360 Constantius bribed the Scythians to aid him in his campaign against the Persians (Ammianus 20. 8. 1) , and in 363 Julian employed Scythian auxiliaries for the same purpose (Ammianus 23. 2. 7) . It is uncertain to which of these dates the fragment refers ”

“ Rohde, Psyche, p. 385.↑ Julian said this of the soldiers who were assigned to him by Constantius when he went to Gaul in 355; cf. Libanius 18. 94 ἔως αὐτῷ κατέλιπον ὁπλίτας εὔξασθαι μόνον δυναμένους, said of the soldiers who were to be left with Julian when Constantius summoned the best of the Gallic army to the East in 360.↑ i.e. the Christians.↑ i.e. by the study of rhetoric.↑ i.e. the arrows are feathered from our plumage ”