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Excerpt from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 of 2: And Some Pieces of the Sophist Libanius; Translated From the Greek Q, The inaufpicious name of julian is fiamped on the. Memory of all ages, not more by the extent of his do minions than by the infamy of his defenting the Chrifiian religion: that great and eternal blot, that fingle (lain, which has totally./fullied all his other graces and aecom plii'menfs; adorned, as he was, with every ehdou'rment of nature, genius, learning, and eloquence, furrounded by a noble train of attendant virtues, temperance, continence, liberality, moderation'in his mode of life, and diflinguifhed alfo by the renown of valour and fuccefs in war. But as it was by no means my intention, I will not fay to erafe or remove Sfor what Chriilian would attempt but id {be fe'aft to idillgdife or exténdate, the blemith that 'his name has thus contr'azted, by paying fome refpeét to his other virtues (0 that elogium\of uncommon erudition and elegance which his lucubrations in various branches of li terature have received from (0 many pail ages, fiiould not, I thought, on that account bewiih-held from them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.