icious day, like an elegant slave,
astonished and intoxicated by the condescension of his master.]

[Footnote 75: Personal satire was condemned by the laws of the
twelve tables: Si male condiderit in quem quis carmina, jus est
Judiciumque--Horat. Sat. ii. 1. 82. -----Julian (in Misopogon, p. 337)
owns himself subject to the law; and the Abbe de la Bleterie (Hist. de
Jovien, tom. ii. p. 92) has eagerly embraced a declaration so agreeable
to his own system, and, indeed, to the true spirit of the Imperial
constitution.]

[Footnote 76: Zosimus, l. iii. p. 158.]

[Footnote 77: See Libanius, (Orat. Parent. c. 71, p. 296,) Ammianus,
(xxii. 9,) and the Theodosian Code (l. xii. tit. i. leg. 50-55.) with
Godefroy's Commentary, (tom. iv. p. 390-402.) Yet the whole subject of
the Curia, notwithstanding very ample materials, still remains the most
obscure in the legal history of the empire.]

[Footnote 78: Quae paulo ante arida et siti anhelantia visebantur, ea
nunc perlui, mundari, madere; Fora, Deambulacra, Gymnasia, laetis et
gaudentibus populis frequentari; dies festos, et celebrari veteres,
et novos in honorem principis consecrari, (Mamertin. xi. 9.) He
particularly restored the city of Nicopolis and the Actiac games, which
had been instituted by Augustus.]

[Footnote 79: Julian. Epist. xxxv. p. 407-411. This epistle, which
illustrates the declining age of Greece, is omitted by the Abbe de la
Bleterie, and strangely disfigured by the Latin translator, who, by
rendering tributum, and populus, directly contradicts the sense of the
original.]

[Footnote 80: He reigned in Mycenae at the distance of fifty stadia, or
six miles from Argos: but these cities, which alternately flourished,
are confounded by the Greek poets. Strabo, l. viii. p. 579, edit.
Amstel. 1707.]

[Footnote 81: Marsham, Canon. Chron. p. 421. This pedigree from Temenus
and Hercules may be suspicious; yet it was allowed, after a strict
inquiry, by the judges of the Olympic games, (Herodot. l. v. c. 22,) at
a time when the Macedonian kings were obscure and unpopular in Greece.
When the Achaean league declared against Philip, it was thought decent
that the deputies of Argos should retire, (T. Liv. xxxii. 22.)]

The laborious administration of military and civil affairs, which were
multiplied in proportion to the extent of the empire, exercised the
abilities of Julian; but he frequently assumed the two characters of
Orator [82] and of Judge, [83] which are alm