ad Antiochen. c. vii. p. 213) reminds Antioch of
the recent chastisement of Caesarea; and even Julian (in Misopogon, p.
355) insinuates how severely Tarentum had expiated the insult to the
Roman ambassadors.]

[Footnote 20: On the subject of the Misopogon, see Ammianus, (xxii. 14,)
Libanius, (Orat. Parentalis, c. xcix. p. 323,) Gregory Nazianzen, (Orat.
iv. p. 133) and the Chronicle of Antioch, by John Malala, (tom. ii. p.
15, 16.) I have essential obligations to the translation and notes of
the Abbe de la Bleterie, (Vie de Jovien, tom. ii. p. 1-138.)]

[Footnote 21: Ammianus very justly remarks, Coactus dissimulare pro
tempore ira sufflabatur interna. The elaborate irony of Julian at length
bursts forth into serious and direct invective.]

[Footnote 22: Ipse autem Antiochiam egressurus, Heliopoliten quendam
Alexandrum Syriacae jurisdictioni praefecit, turbulentum et
saevum; dicebatque non illum meruisse, sed Antiochensibus avaris et
contumeliosis hujusmodi judicem convenire. Ammian. xxiii. 2. Libanius,
(Epist. 722, p. 346, 347,) who confesses to Julian himself, that he had
shared the general discontent, pretends that Alexander was a useful,
though harsh, reformer of the manners and religion of Antioch.]

[Footnote 23: Julian, in Misopogon, p. 364. Ammian. xxiii. 2, and
Valesius, ad loc. Libanius, in a professed oration, invites him to
return to his loyal and penitent city of Antioch.]

Yet Antioch possessed one citizen, whose genius and virtues might atone,
in the opinion of Julian, for the vice and folly of his country. The
sophist Libanius was born in the capital of the East; he publicly
professed the arts of rhetoric and declamation at Nice, Nicomedia,
Constantinople, Athens, and, during the remainder of his life, at
Antioch. His school was assiduously frequented by the Grecian youth; his
disciples, who sometimes exceeded the number of eighty, celebrated their
incomparable master; and the jealousy of his rivals, who persecuted him
from one city to another, confirmed the favorable opinion which Libanius
ostentatiously displayed of his superior merit. The preceptors of Julian
had extorted a rash but solemn assurance, that he would never attend
the lectures of their adversary: the curiosity of the royal youth
was checked and inflamed: he secretly procured the writings of this
dangerous sophist, and gradually surpassed, in the perfect imitation of
his style, the most laborious of his domestic pupils. [24] When Julia