o what he pleased, he then showed his secret inclinations, and by
plain and positive decrees ordered the temples to be opened, and victims
to be brought to the altars for the worship of the gods.

3. And in order to give more effect to his intentions, he ordered the
priests of the different Christian sects, with the adherents of each
sect, to be admitted into the palace, and in a constitutional spirit
expressed his wish that their dissensions being appeased, each without
any hindrance might fearlessly follow the religion he preferred.

4. He did this the more resolutely because, as long licence increased
their dissensions, he thought he should never have to fear the unanimity
of the common people, having found by experience that no wild beasts are
so hostile to men as Christian sects in general are to one another. And
he often used to say, "Listen to me, to whom the Allemanni and Franks
have listened;" imitating in this an expression of the ancient emperor
Marcus Aurelius. But he omitted to notice that there was a great
difference between himself and his predecessor.

5. For when Marcus was passing through Palestine, on his road to Egypt,
he is said, when wearied by the dirt and rebellious spirit of the Jews,
to have often exclaimed with sorrow, "O Marcomanni, O Quadi, O
Sarmatians, I have at last found others worse than you!"

VI.

Sec. 1. About the same time many Egyptians, excited by various rumours,
arrived at Constantinople; a race given to controversy, and extremely
addicted to habits of litigation, covetous, and apt to ask payment of
debts due to them over and over again; and also, by way of escaping from
making the payments due to them, to accuse the rich of embezzlement, and
the tax-gatherers of extortion.

2. These men, collecting into one body, came screeching like so many
jackdaws, claiming in a rude manner the attention of the emperor
himself, and of the prefects of the praetorium, and demanding the
restoration of the contributions which they had been compelled to
furnish, justly or unjustly, for the last seventy years.

3. And as they hindered the transaction of any other business, Julian
issued an edict in which he ordered them all to go to Chalcedon,
promising that he himself also would soon come there, and settle all
their business.

4. And when they had gone, an order was given to all the captains of
ships which go to and fro, that none of them should venture to take an
Egyptian for a passen