le wish, that the disciple of Plato might
have reposed amidst the groves of the academy; [139] while the soldier
exclaimed, in bolder accents, that the ashes of Julian should have
been mingled with those of Caesar, in the field of Mars, and among the
ancient monuments of Roman virtue. [140] The history of princes does not
very frequently renew the examples of a similar competition.

[Footnote 136: At the funeral of Vespasian, the comedian who personated
that frugal emperor, anxiously inquired how much it cost. Fourscore
thousand pounds, (centies.) Give me the tenth part of the sum, and throw
my body into the Tiber. Sueton, in Vespasian, c. 19, with the notes of
Casaubon and Gronovius.]

[Footnote 137: Gregory (Orat. iv. p. 119, 120) compares this supposed
ignominy and ridicule to the funeral honors of Constantius, whose body
was chanted over Mount Taurus by a choir of angels.]

[Footnote 138: Quintus Curtius, l. iii. c. 4. The luxuriancy of his
descriptions has been often censured. Yet it was almost the duty of the
historian to describe a river, whose waters had nearly proved fatal to
Alexander.]

[Footnote 139: Libanius, Orat. Parent. c. 156, p. 377. Yet he
acknowledges with gratitude the liberality of the two royal brothers in
decorating the tomb of Julian, (de ulcis. Jul. nece, c. 7, p. 152.)]

[Footnote 140: Cujus suprema et cineres, si qui tunc juste consuleret,
non Cydnus videre deberet, quamvis gratissimus amnis et liquidus: sed ad
perpetuandam gloriam recte factorum praeterlambere Tiberis, intersecans
urbem aeternam, divorumque veterum monumenta praestringens Ammian. xxv.
10.]

Chapter XXV: Reigns Of Jovian And Valentinian, Division Of The
Empire.--Part I.

The Government And Death Of Jovian.--Election Of Valentinian, Who
Associates His Brother Valens, And Makes The Final Division Of
The Eastern And Western Empires.--Revolt Of Procopius.--Civil And
Ecclesiastical Administration.--Germany. --Britain.--Africa.--The
East.--The Danube.--Death Of Valentinian.--His Two Sons, Gratian And
Valentinian II., Succeed To The Western Empire.

The death of Julian had left the public affairs of the empire in a
very doubtful and dangerous situation. The Roman army was saved by an
inglorious, perhaps a necessary treaty; [1] and the first moments of
peace were consecrated by the pious Jovian to restore the domestic
tranquility of the church and state. The indiscretion of his
predecessor, instead of reconciling, had