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THUS did the emperor repress at that time the impetuosity of those
who were disposed to cavil: and immediately departing from Antioch,
he went to Tarsus in Cilicia, where he duly performed the funeral
obsequies of Julian, after which he was declared consul. Proceeding
thence directly to Constantinople, he arrived at a place named
Dadastana, situated on the frontiers of Galatia and Bithynia.
There Themistius the philosopher, with others of the senatorial
order, met him, and pronounced the consular oration before him, which
he afterwards recited before the people at Constantinople. And indeed
the Roman empire, blest with so excellent a sovereign, would
doubtless have flourished exceedingly, as it is likely that both the
civil and ecclesiastical departments would have been happily
administered, had not his sudden death bereft the state of so eminent a
personage. For disease caused by some obstruction, having attacked
him at the place above mentioned during the winter season, he died
there on the 17th day of February, in his own and his son
Varronian's consulate, in the thirty-third year of his age, after
having reigned seven months.
This book contains an account of the events which took place in the
space of two years and five months.
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