ulian beheld its walls buried in miserable ashes, he showed the
anguish of his mind by silent tears, and went slowly on towards the
palace; especially lamenting its misfortunes, because the senators who
came out to meet him were in poor-looking condition, as well as the
people who had formerly been most prosperous; some of them he recognized
having been brought up there by the bishop Eusebius, of whom he was a
distant relation.

5. Having here made many arrangements for repairing the damage done by
an earthquake, he passed through Nisaea to the frontier of Gallo-Graecia,
and then turning to the right, he went to Pessinus, to see the ancient
temple of Cybele; from which town in the second Punic war, in accordance
with the warning of the Sibylline verses, the image of the goddess was
removed to Rome by Scipio Nasica.

6. Of its arrival in Italy, with many other matters connected with it,
we made mention in recording the acts of the emperor Commodus; but as to
what the reason was for the town receiving this name writers differ.

7. For some have declared that the city was so called +apo tou
pesein+, from falling; inventing a tale that the statue fell from
heaven; others affirm that Ilus, the son of Tros, king of Dardania, gave
the place this name, which Theopompus says it received not from this,
but from Midas, formerly a most powerful king of Phrygia.

8. Accordingly, having paid his worship to the goddess, and propitiated
her with sacrifices and prayers, he returned to Ancyra; and as he was
proceeding on this way from thence he was disturbed by a multitude; some
violently demanding the restoration of what had been taken from them,
others complaining that they had been unjustly attached to different
courts; some, regardless of the risk they ran, tried to enrage him
against their adversaries, by charging them with treason.

9. But he, a sterner judge than Cassius or Lycurgus, weighed the charges
with justice, and gave each his due; never being swayed from the truth,
but very severe to calumniators, whom he hated, because he himself,
while still a private individual and of low estate, had often
experienced the petulant frenzy of many in a way which placed him in
great danger.

10. And though there are many other examples of his patience in such
matters, it will suffice to relate one here. A certain man laid an
information against his enemy, with whom he had a most bitter quarrel,
affirming that he had been guilty of o