Note 080 Eum Constantius . . . facundiae vi dejectum Imperio in privatum otium removit. Quae gloria post natum Imperium soli processit eloquio clementiaque, etc. Aurelius Victor [de Caesar. c. 42]. Julian and Themistius (Orat. iii. and iv.) adorn this exploit with all the artificial and gaudy colouring of their rhetoric.

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Note to Chapter 18 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon