not
brought to an end, and while, if you will suffer me to tell the truth,
these provinces are still exposed to continual dangers on being deprived
of all foreign or adequate assistance.

17. "In speaking thus, I do think I have written to you in a manner
suited to the interests of the state, both in my demands and my
entreaties. For I well know, not to speak in a lofty tone, though such
might not misbecome an emperor, what wretched states of affairs, even
when utterly desperate and given up, have been before now retrieved and
re-established by the agreement of princes, each yielding reciprocally
to one another. While it is also plain from the example of our
ancestors, that rulers who acknowledge and act upon such principles do
somehow ever find the means of living prosperously and happily, and
leave behind them to the latest posterity an enviable fame."

18. To these letters he added others of a more secret purport, to be
given privily to Constantius, in which he blamed and reproached him;
though their exact tenor was not fit to be known, nor if known, fit to
be divulged to the public.

19. For the office of delivering these letters, men of great dignity
were chosen; namely, Pentadius, the master of the ceremonies, and
Eutherius, at that time the principal chamberlain; who were charged,
after they had delivered the letters, to relate what they had seen,
without suppressing anything; and to take their own measures boldly on
all future emergencies which might arise.

20. In the mean time the flight of Florentius, the prefect, aggravated
the envy with which these circumstances were regarded. For he, as if he
foresaw the commotion likely to arise, as might be gathered from general
conversation, from the act of sending for the troops, had departed for
Vienne (being also desirous to get out of the way of Julian, whom he had
often slandered), pretending to be compelled to this journey for the
sake of providing supplies for the army.

21. Afterwards, when he had heard of Julian's being raised to the
dignity of emperor, being greatly alarmed, and giving up almost all hope
of saving his life, he availed himself of his distance from Julian to
escape from the evils which he suspected; and leaving behind him all his
family, he proceeded by slow journeys to Constantius; and to prove his
own innocence he brought forward many charges of rebellion against
Julian.

22. And after his departure, Julian, adopting wise measures, and