Gaul, and the praefect
of the East, must be carefully distinguished, (Hist. des Empereurs,
tom. iv. p. 696.) I have used the surname of Secundus, as a convenient
epithet. The second Sallust extorted the esteem of the Christians
themselves; and Gregory Nazianzen, who condemned his religion, has
celebrated his virtues, (Orat. iii. p. 90.) See a curious note of the
Abbe de la Bleterie, Vie de Julien, p. 363. Note: Gibbonus secundum
habet pro numero, quod tamen est viri agnomen Wagner, nota in loc. Amm.
It is not a mistake; it is rather an error in taste. Wagner inclines to
transfer the chief guilt to Arbetio.--M.]

[Footnote 61: Mamertinus praises the emperor (xi. l.) for bestowing
the offices of Treasurer and Praefect on a man of wisdom, firmness,
integrity, &c., like himself. Yet Ammianus ranks him (xxi. l.) among the
ministers of Julian, quorum merita norat et fidem.]

[Footnote 62: The proceedings of this chamber of justice are related by
Ammianus, (xxii. 3,) and praised by Libanius, (Orat. Parent. c. 74, p.
299, 300.)]

The chamberlain Eusebius, who had so long abused the favor of
Constantius, expiated, by an ignominious death, the insolence, the
corruption, and cruelty of his servile reign. The executions of Paul
and Apodemius (the former of whom was burnt alive) were accepted as
an inadequate atonement by the widows and orphans of so many hundred
Romans, whom those legal tyrants had betrayed and murdered. But justice
herself (if we may use the pathetic expression of Ammianus) [63] appeared
to weep over the fate of Ursulus, the treasurer of the empire; and
his blood accused the ingratitude of Julian, whose distress had been
seasonably relieved by the intrepid liberality of that honest minister.
The rage of the soldiers, whom he had provoked by his indiscretion, was
the cause and the excuse of his death; and the emperor, deeply wounded
by his own reproaches and those of the public, offered some consolation
to the family of Ursulus, by the restitution of his confiscated
fortunes. Before the end of the year in which they had been adorned with
the ensigns of the prefecture and consulship, [64] Taurus and Florentius
were reduced to implore the clemency of the inexorable tribunal of
Chalcedon. The former was banished to Vercellae in Italy, and a sentence
of death was pronounced against the latter. A wise prince should have
rewarded the crime of Taurus: the faithful minister, when he was no
longer able to oppose the prog