A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . for Christ. ,, »1 ., 1 ,. J. At SIScia, in Pannonia, the Alamanm to make a great invasion of the coin was struck. Gaul, and in the summer of 353 gained the upper hand over Magnentius, who killed himself at Lyons. Con-stantius, now sole ruler of the state, was unable to turn back theAlamanni, who marched on Autun, while in 355 Cologne and theleft bank of the Rhine were lost to the Franks. He determined tosend to Gaul, as the only means of saving the country, his cousin, theCaesar Flavins Claudius
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . for Christ. ,, »1 ., 1 ,. J. At SIScia, in Pannonia, the Alamanm to make a great invasion of the coin was struck. Gaul, and in the summer of 353 gained the upper hand over Magnentius, who killed himself at Lyons. Con-stantius, now sole ruler of the state, was unable to turn back theAlamanni, who marched on Autun, while in 355 Cologne and theleft bank of the Rhine were lost to the Franks. He determined tosend to Gaul, as the only means of saving the country, his cousin, theCaesar Flavins Claudius Julianus. The suspicious emperor was very loth to take this step. He knewthat Julian, who was in his seventh year when he escaped the massacreof the princes (p. 239), had no reason to love him, and that this versa-tile and highly gifted prince, whom he had constantly kept out of pub-lic life, was well aware of the mistrust with which he was a few trusted friends of Julian, however, knew that the prince,whom a monastic training and the hard experiences of his youth had. CONSTANTIUS IL AND JULIAN. 245 filled with a deep abhorrence for Christianity, had been won over by tiieNeo-Platonists in Nicomedia to yearnings for the splendor of Gre-cian antiquity, and that in the summer of 355, while pursuing hisstudies in Athens, he had been initiated into the Eleusinian named his cousin as Caesar, November 6, 355, so thatby sending him to (iaul he might inspire the people with confidencein the good will of the government. Everything possible, however,was done by knavish subordinates to put obstacles in Juhans way,and to bring about his overthrow. But Julian, the ablest man of thelater Constantines, was a hero and a statesman ; and his brilliant talentsas general and regent soon triumphed over all difficulties. He was
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