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Principal Events In The Reign Of Julian,
PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE REIGN OF JULIAN ,
THE ROMAN EMPERORi
FLAVIUS Claudius Julian was born at Constantinople , November 6 th , A . D . 331 . His father and most of his relations , except his brother , were murdered by order of the Emperor Constantius , his cousin : who thought there would be no danger in preserving the lives of these two . Gallus was of a sickly constitution , 1 d Julian not more than eiht years old ; the former was sent
aI g into Ionia , and Julian to Eusebius of Nicomeda , his relation ; at the a" -e of 14 , or 15 , he was taken from the schools to be confined with " his brother Gallus , in a castle of Cappadocia . Julian speaks of it thus : " During the six years , says he , ( in his Manifesto to the Athenians ) that we passed in a foreign land , we were confined as if we friends had
had been prisoners in some castle of Persia : none of our the privilege of coming to us ; we were neither allowed to learn any thing that was worth learning , nor to see any person of distinction . In the midst of a numerous and magnificent household we were compelled to have no companions but our own slaves , and with them to form our exercises ; the young people of our own age , who were of better birth , could not approach us . If my brother had any thing harsh or rustic in his nature , he-acquired it
partly from his mountainous education . " His brother Gallus having been raised to the rank of Csesar , ' byConstantius , he left Julian in the castle of Macellum ; but they shortly after obtained for him the liberty of coming to Constantinople , in order to complete his studies . The oaths and promises that his Christian tutor there exacted from him , in order to continue him in the faithvery probably biassed his mind in favor of
, Paganism . Gallus from courtly envy soon became a victim to Constantius ' s suspicions , or rather to gratify the revenge of his eunuch and chamberlain Eusebius ; he was privately beheaded at Flanon in Dalmatia , in the twenty-ninth year of his age . Eusebia , the empress and his benefactress , after much intercessionobtained consent for Julian to retire into Greece : this
, Was a place much desired by him , it being the centre of accomplishments and learning . The Athenians found in him a modest . eloquence , which gained him respect in the minds of all who con-Versed with him : the prejudices of religion too heightened him still more in the minds and favor of the Pagans , who knew , or at least guessed athis sentiments . Plere Julian entered into the
, strictest intimacy with the Pontiff of Eiettsinia , and eagerly imbibed his tenets as well as his learning ; he disclosed himself also to other Pagans , whom he judged worthy of his confidence . F
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Principal Events In The Reign Of Julian,
PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE REIGN OF JULIAN ,
THE ROMAN EMPERORi
FLAVIUS Claudius Julian was born at Constantinople , November 6 th , A . D . 331 . His father and most of his relations , except his brother , were murdered by order of the Emperor Constantius , his cousin : who thought there would be no danger in preserving the lives of these two . Gallus was of a sickly constitution , 1 d Julian not more than eiht years old ; the former was sent
aI g into Ionia , and Julian to Eusebius of Nicomeda , his relation ; at the a" -e of 14 , or 15 , he was taken from the schools to be confined with " his brother Gallus , in a castle of Cappadocia . Julian speaks of it thus : " During the six years , says he , ( in his Manifesto to the Athenians ) that we passed in a foreign land , we were confined as if we friends had
had been prisoners in some castle of Persia : none of our the privilege of coming to us ; we were neither allowed to learn any thing that was worth learning , nor to see any person of distinction . In the midst of a numerous and magnificent household we were compelled to have no companions but our own slaves , and with them to form our exercises ; the young people of our own age , who were of better birth , could not approach us . If my brother had any thing harsh or rustic in his nature , he-acquired it
partly from his mountainous education . " His brother Gallus having been raised to the rank of Csesar , ' byConstantius , he left Julian in the castle of Macellum ; but they shortly after obtained for him the liberty of coming to Constantinople , in order to complete his studies . The oaths and promises that his Christian tutor there exacted from him , in order to continue him in the faithvery probably biassed his mind in favor of
, Paganism . Gallus from courtly envy soon became a victim to Constantius ' s suspicions , or rather to gratify the revenge of his eunuch and chamberlain Eusebius ; he was privately beheaded at Flanon in Dalmatia , in the twenty-ninth year of his age . Eusebia , the empress and his benefactress , after much intercessionobtained consent for Julian to retire into Greece : this
, Was a place much desired by him , it being the centre of accomplishments and learning . The Athenians found in him a modest . eloquence , which gained him respect in the minds of all who con-Versed with him : the prejudices of religion too heightened him still more in the minds and favor of the Pagans , who knew , or at least guessed athis sentiments . Plere Julian entered into the
, strictest intimacy with the Pontiff of Eiettsinia , and eagerly imbibed his tenets as well as his learning ; he disclosed himself also to other Pagans , whom he judged worthy of his confidence . F