en listened to with approval,
they received rewards and were ordered to return to their standards.

A.D. 364.

11. When the emperor had made his entry into Ancyra, everything
necessary for his procession having been prepared as well as the time
permitted, Jovian entered on the consulship, and took as his colleague
his son Varronianus, who was as yet quite a child, and whose cries as he
obstinately resisted being borne in the curule chair, according to the
ancient fashion, was an omen of what shortly happened.

12. Here also the appointed termination of life carried off Jovian with
rapidity. For when he had reached Dadastana, a place on the borders of
Bithynia and Galatia, he was found dead in the night; and many uncertain
reports were spread concerning his death.

13. It was said that he had been unable to bear the unwholesome smell
of the fresh mortar with which his bedchamber had been plastered. Also
that his head had swollen in consequence of a great fire of coals, and
that this had been the cause of his death; others said that he had died
of a surfeit from over eating. He was in the thirty-third year of his
age. And though he and Scipio AEmilianus both died in the same manner, we
have not found out that any investigation into the death of either ever
took place.

14. Jovian was slow in his movements, of a cheerful countenance, with
blue eyes; very tall, so much so that it was long before any of the
royal robes could be found to fit him. He was anxious to imitate
Constantius, often occupying himself with serious business till after
midday, and being fond of jesting with his friends in public.

15. He was given to the study of the Christian law, sometimes doing it
marked honour; he was tolerably learned in it, very well inclined to its
professors, and disposed to promote them to be judges, as was seen in
some of his appointments. He was fond of eating, addicted to wine and
women, though he would perhaps have corrected these propensities from a
sense of what was due to the imperial dignity.

16. It was said that his father, Varronianus, through the warning of a
dream, had long since foreseen what happened, and had foretold it to two
of his most faithful friends, with the addition that he himself also
should become consul. But though part of his prophecy became true, he
could not procure the fulfilment of the rest. For though he heard of his
son's high fortune, he died before he could see him.

17. And because