Letter 10
Julian the Apostate→Constantinople in|julian emperor
imperial politics
[This entry contains only scholarly footnotes and cross-references, not a letter. The notes reference Ammianus Marcellinus's account of Julian's march, the Doubs river, and the philosopher Maximus's delayed journey from Ephesus to Constantinople in early 362.]
1 Cf. Ammianus 20. 10, per Besontionem Viennam hiematurus
abscessit. Besontio or Vesontio (Besancon), the capital of the Sequani, is described in much the same language by Caesar, Gallic War I. 38.
2 Doubs.
3 Ammianus 21. 7, Zosimus 3. 10 describe this march.
1 Julian's friends in the East were in danger after his quarrel with
Constantius.
2 Cf. Libanius, Oration 18. 114,
3 Cf. Letter 25, To Evagrius.
1 Maximus did not join Julian at Naissa, but, as Eunapius relates in his Life of
Chrysanthius, p. 55i (Wright), he lingered at Ephesus in the vain attempt to secure favourable omens for the journey, and finally joined Julian at
Constantinople early in 362; cf. Eunapius, Life of Aedesius, pp. 440 foll.
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[This entry contains only scholarly footnotes and cross-references, not a letter. The notes reference Ammianus Marcellinus's account of Julian's march, the Doubs river, and the philosopher Maximus's delayed journey from Ephesus to Constantinople in early 362.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.