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qua] to such an extent of care and of dominion.'Insensible to the voice of flattery, which assuredhim that his all-powerful virtue, and celestialfortune, would still continue to triumph overevery obstacle, he listened with complacencyto the advice of Eusebia, which gratified his in-dolence, without offending his suspicious pride.As she perceived that the remembrance of Gal-las dwelt on the emperor’s mind, she artfullyturned his attention to the opposite charactersof the two brothers, which from their infancyhad been compared to those of Domitian andof Titus. g She accustomed her husband toconsider Julian as a youth of a mild unambi-tious disposition, whose allegiance and grati-tude might be secured by the gift of the purple,and who was qualified to fill, with honour, asubordinate station, without aspiring to disputethe commands, or to shade the glories, of hissovereign and benefactor. After an obstinate,though secret struggle, the opposition of the fa-vourite eunuchs submitted to the ascendencyof the empress; and it was resolved that Julian,after celebrating his nuptials with Helena, sis-ter of Constantius, should be appointed, with

f Succnmbcre tot necessitatibns tamque crebris unum se quod mm-quam fecerat aperte demonstrans. Ammian. 1. xv, c. 8. He then ex-presses, in their own words, the flatterhig assurances of the courtiers,

8 Tantum a temperatis monbus Juliani differens fratris quantum in-ter Vespasiani filios fait, Domitianum et Titum. Ammian. 1. xiv, c. II.The circumstances and education of the two brothers were so nearlythe same, as to afford a strong example of the innate difference of ch<i-racters.

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