, which La Bleterie understands (Vie de Julien, p. 118)
as an honest confession, and Valesius (ad Ammian. xvii. 2)
as a mean evasion, of the truth. Dom Bouquet (Historiens de
France, tom. i. p. 733), by substituting another word, 
, would suppress both the difficulty and the spirit of this
passage.