Today's installment concludes Early Career of Julian the Apostate,our selection by Edward Gibbon.If you have journeyed through all of the

The hopes of Julian depended much less on the number of his troops than on the celerity of his motions.Continuing Early Career of Julian the

He continued his march toward the confines of Persia and thought it sufficient to signify the conditions which might entitle Julian and his guilty

To moderate the zeal of his party, to protect the persons of his enemies, to defeat and to despise the secret enterprises which were formed against

The prince, whose anxious suspense was interrupted by their disorderly acclamations, secured the doors against their intrusion.Continuing Early

Constantius signified his pleasure that four entire legions, the Celtae and Petulants, the Heruli and the Batavians, should be separated from the