ck, by timely admonition, his
own impulses when they were inclined to stray; and he continually showed
that he was vexed if he committed errors, and was desirous of being
corrected.

4. And when the advocates in some actions were once applauding him
greatly as one who had attained to perfect wisdom, he is said to have
exclaimed with much emotion, "I was glad and made it my pride to be
praised by those whom I knew to be competent to find fault with me, if I
had said or done anything wrong."

5. But it will be sufficient out of the many instances of his clemency
which he afforded in judging causes to mention this one, which is not
irrelevant to our subject or insignificant. A certain woman being
brought before the court, saw that her adversary, formerly one of the
officers of the palace, but who had been displaced, was now, contrary to
her expectation, re-established and girt in his official dress,
complained in a violent manner of this circumstance; and the emperor
replied, "Proceed, O woman, if you think that you have been injured in
any respect; he is girt as you see in order to go more quickly through
the mire; your cause will not suffer from it."

6. And these and similar actions led to the belief, as he was constantly
saying, that that ancient justice which Aratus states to have fled to
heaven in disgust at the vices of mankind, had returned to earth; only
that sometimes he acted according to his own will rather than according
to law, making mistakes which somewhat darkened the glorious course of
his renown.

7. After many trials he corrected numerous abuses in the laws, cutting
away circuitous proceedings, and making the enactments show more plainly
what they commanded or forbade. But his forbidding masters of rhetoric
and grammar to instruct Christians was a cruel action, and one deserving
to be buried in everlasting silence.

XI.

Sec. 1. At this time, Gaudentius the secretary, whom I have mentioned above
as having been sent by Constantius to oppose Julian in Africa, and a man
of the name of Julian, who had been a deputy governor, and who was an
intemperate partisan of the late emperor, were brought back as
prisoners, and put to death.

2. And at the same time, Artemius, who had been Duke of Egypt, and
against whom the citizens of Alexandria brought a great mass of heavy
accusations, was also put to death, and the son of Marcellus too, who
had been commander both of the infantry and of the cavalry, was