titutes genuine humor.]

[Footnote 112: Babylas is named by Eusebius in the succession of the
bishops of Antioch, (Hist. Eccles. l. vi. c. 29, 39.) His triumph over
two emperors (the first fabulous, the second historical) is diffusely
celebrated by Chrysostom, (tom. ii. p. 536-579, edit. Montfaucon.)
Tillemont (Mem. Eccles. tom. iii. part ii. p. 287-302, 459-465) becomes
almost a sceptic.]

[Footnote 113: Ecclesiastical critics, particularly those who love
relics, exult in the confession of Julian (Misopogon, p. 361) and
Libanius, (Laenia, p. 185,) that Apollo was disturbed by the vicinity
of one dead man. Yet Ammianus (xxii. 12) clears and purifies the whole
ground, according to the rites which the Athenians formerly practised in
the Isle of Delos.]

[Footnote 114: Julian (in Misopogon, p. 361) rather insinuates, than
affirms, their guilt. Ammianus (xxii. 13) treats the imputation as
levissimus rumor, and relates the story with extraordinary candor.]

[Footnote 115: Quo tam atroci casu repente consumpto, ad id usque
e imperatoris ira provexit, ut quaestiones agitare juberet solito
acriores, (yet Julian blames the lenity of the magistrates of Antioch,)
et majorem ecclesiam Antiochiae claudi. This interdiction was performed
with some circumstances of indignity and profanation; and the seasonable
death of the principal actor, Julian's uncle, is related with much
superstitious complacency by the Abbe de la Bleterie. Vie de Julien, p.
362-369.]

[Footnote 116: Besides the ecclesiastical historians, who are more or
less to be suspected, we may allege the passion of St. Theodore, in the
Acta Sincera of Ruinart, p. 591. The complaint of Julian gives it an
original and authentic air.]

Chapter XXIII: Reign Of Julian.--Part V.

The zeal of the ministers of Julian was instantly checked by the frown
of their sovereign; but when the father of his country declares himself
the leader of a faction, the license of popular fury cannot easily be
restrained, nor consistently punished. Julian, in a public composition,
applauds the devotion and loyalty of the holy cities of Syria, whose
pious inhabitants had destroyed, at the first signal, the sepulchres
of the Galilaeans; and faintly complains, that they had revenged
the injuries of the gods with less moderation than he should have
recommended. [117] This imperfect and reluctant confession may appear
to confirm the ecclesiastical narratives; that in the cities of Gaza,
Ascal