ll
often invaded my thoughts. One, which would have been intolerable (but
that indeed seldom troubled me), was, that I must one day leave my
darling treasure.

"The other haunted me continually, viz., that my riches were no greater.
However, I comforted myself against this reflection by an assurance that
they would increase daily: on which head my hopes were so extensive that
I may say with Virgil--

'His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono.'

Indeed I am convinced that, had I possessed the whole globe of earth,
save one single drachma, which I had been certain never to be master
of--I am convinced, I say, that single drachma would have given me more
uneasiness than all the rest could afford me pleasure.

"To say the truth, between my solicitude in contriving schemes to
procure money and my extreme anxiety in preserving it, I never had one
moment of ease while awake nor of quiet when in my sleep.

"In all the characters through which I have passed, I have never
undergone half the misery I suffered in this; and, indeed, Minos seemed
to be of the same opinion; for while I stood trembling and shaking in
expectation of my sentence he bid me go back about my business, for that
nobody was to be d--n'd in more worlds than one. And, indeed, I have
since learned that the devil will not receive a miser."

CHAPTER XII

What happened to Julian in the characters of a general, an
heir, a carpenter, and a beau.

"The next step I took into the world was at Apollonia, in Thrace, where
I was born of a beautiful Greek slave, who was the mistress of Eutyches,
a great favorite of the emperor Zeno. That prince, at his restoration,
gave me the command of a cohort, I being then but fifteen years of age;
and a little afterwards, before I had even seen an army, preferred me,
over the heads of all the old officers, to be a tribune.

"As I found an easy access to the emperor, by means of my father's
intimacy with him, he being a very good courtier--or, in other words, a
most prostitute flatterer--so I soon ingratiated myself with Zeno, and
so well imitated my father in flattering him, that he would never part
with me from about his person. So that the first armed force I ever
beheld was that with which Marcian surrounded the palace, where I was
then shut up with the rest of the court.

"I was afterwards put at the head of a legion and ordered to march into
Syria with Theodoric the Goth; that is, I mean my legion was so