ger. And as this command was carefully observed,
their obstinacy in bringing false accusations came to an end, and they
all, being disappointed in their object, returned home.

5. After which, as if at the dictation of justice herself, a law was
published forbidding any one to exact from any officer the restitution
of things which that officer had legally received.

VII.

A.D. 362.

Sec. 1. At the beginning of the new year, when the consular records had
received the names of Mamertinus and Nevitta, the prince humbled himself
by walking in their train with other men of high rank; an act which some
praised, while others blame it as full of affectation, and mean.

2. Afterwards, when Mamertinus was celebrating the Circensian games,
Julian, following an ancient fashion, manumitted some slaves, who were
introduced by the consul's officer; but afterwards, being informed that
on that day the supreme jurisdiction belonged to another, he fined
himself ten pounds of gold as an offender.

3. At the same time he was a continual attendant in the court of
justice, settling many actions which were brought in all kinds of cases.
One day while he was sitting as judge, the arrival of a certain
philosopher from Asia named Maximus, was announced, on which he leapt
down from the judgment seat in an unseemly manner, and forgetting
himself so far as to run at full speed from the hall, he kissed him, and
received him with great reverence, and led him into the palace,
appearing by this unseasonable ostentation a seeker of empty glory, and
forgetful of those admirable words of Cicero, which describe people like
him.

4. "Those very philosophers inscribe their names on the identical books
which they write about the contempt of glory, in order that they may be
named and extolled in that very thing in which they proclaim their
contempt for mention and for praise."[122]

5. Not long afterwards, two of the secretaries who had been banished
came to him, boldly promising to point out the hiding-place of
Florentius if he would restore them to their rank in the army; but he
abused them, and called them informers; adding that it did not become an
emperor to be led by underhand information to bring back a man who had
concealed himself out of fear of death, and who perhaps would not long
be left in his retreat unpardoned.

6. On all these occasions Praetextatus was present, a senator of a noble
disposition and of old-fashioned dignity; who at t