hat time had come to
Constantinople on his own private affairs, and whom Julian by his own
choice selected as governor of Achaia with the rank of proconsul.

7. Still, while thus diligent in correcting civil evils, Julian did not
omit the affairs of the army: continually appointing over the soldiers
officers of long-tried worth; repairing the exterior defences of all the
cities throughout Thrace, and taking great care that the soldiers on the
banks of the Danube, who were exposed to the attacks of the barbarians,
and who, as he heard were doing their duty with vigilance and courage,
should never be in want of arms, clothes, pay, or provisions.

8. And while superintending these matters he allowed nothing to be done
carelessly: and when those about him advised him to attack the Gauls as
neighbours who were always deceitful and perfidious, he said he wished
for more formidable foes; for that the Gallic merchants were enough for
them, who sold them at all times without any distinction of rank.

9. While he gave his attention to these and similar matters, his fame
was spreading among foreign nations for courage, temperance, skill in
war, and eminent endowments of every kind of virtue, so that he
gradually became renowned throughout the whole world.

10. And as the fear of his approach pervaded both neighbouring and
distant countries, embassies hastened to him with unusual speed from all
quarters at one time; the people beyond the Tigris and the Armenians
sued for peace. At another the Indian tribes vied with each other,
sending nobles loaded with gifts even from the Maldive Islands and
Ceylon; from the south the Moors offered themselves as subjects of the
Roman empire; from the north, and also from those hot climates through
which the Phasis passes on its way to the sea, and from the people of
the Bosphorus, and from other unknown tribes came ambassadors entreating
that on the payment of annual duties they might be allowed to live in
peace within their native countries.

VIII.

Sec. 1. The time is now appropriate, in my opinion, since in treating of
this mighty prince we are come to speak of these districts, to explain
perspicuously what we have learnt by our own eyesight or by reading,
about the frontiers of Thrace and the situation of the Black Sea.

2. The lofty mountains of Athos in Macedonia, once made passable for
ships by the Persians, and the Euboean rocky promontory of Caphareus,
where Nauplius the father