utrage and sedition; and when the
emperor concealed his own opinion, he renewed the charge for several
days, and when at last he was asked who the man was whom he was
accusing, he replied, a rich citizen. When the emperor heard this he
smiled and said, "What proof led you to the discovery of this conduct of
his?" He replied, "The man has had made for himself a purple silk robe."

11. And on this, being ordered to depart in silence, and though
unpunished as a low fellow who was accusing one of his own class of too
difficult an enterprise to be believed, he nevertheless insisted on the
truth of the accusation, till Julian, being wearied by his pertinacity,
said to the treasurer, whom he saw near him, "Bid them give this
dangerous chatterer some purple shoes to take to his enemy, who, as he
gives me to understood, has made himself a robe of that colour; that so
he may know how little a worthless piece of cloth can help a man,
without the greatest strength."

12. But as such conduct as this is praiseworthy and deserving the
imitation of virtuous rulers, so it was a sad thing and deserving of
censure, that in his time it was very hard for any one who was accused
by any magistrate to obtain justice, however fortified he might be by
privileges, or the number of his campaigns, or by a host of friends. So
that many persons being alarmed bought off all such annoyances by secret
bribes.

13. Therefore, when after a long journey he had reached Pylae, a place on
the frontiers of Cappadocia and Cilicia, he received the ruler of the
province, Celsus, already known to him by his Attic studies, with a
kiss, and taking him up into his chariot conducted him with him into
Tarsus.

14. From hence, desiring to see Antioch, the splendid metropolis of the
East, he went thither by the usual stages, and when he came near the
city he was received as if he had been a god, with public prayers, so
that he marvelled at the voices of the vast multitude, who cried out
that he had come to shine like a star on the Eastern regions.

15. It happened that just at that time, the annual period for the
celebration of the festival of Adonis, according to the old fashion,
came round; the story being, as the poets relate, that Adonis had been
loved by Venus, and slain by a boar's tusk, which is an emblem of the
fruits of the earth being cut down in their prime. And it appeared a sad
thing that when the emperor was now for the first time making his
entrance