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WHILE the Emperor Constantius continued his residence at
Antioch, Julian Caesar engaged with an immense army of barbarians in
the Gauls, and obtaining the victory over them, he became extremely
popular among the soldiery and was proclaimed emperor by them. When
this was made known, the Emperor Constantius was affected most
painfully; he was therefore baptized by Euzoius, and immediately
prepared to undertake an expedition against Julian. On arriving at
the frontiers of Cappadocia and Cilicia, his excessive agitation of
mind produced apoplexy, which terminated his life at Mopsucrene, in
the consulate of Taurus and Florentius, on the 3d of November.
This was in the first year of the 285th Olympiad. Constantius had
lived forty-five years, having reigned thirty-eight years; thirteen
of which he was his father's colleague in the empire, and after his
father's death for twenty-five years [sole emperor], the history of
which latter period is contained in this book.
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