Note 023 The dexterous management of these sophists, who played their credulous pupil into each other's hands, is fairly told by Eunapius [in Maximo, p. 85 seqq., ed. Commel.] with unsuspecting simplicity. The Abbe de la Bleterie understands, and neatly describes, the whole comedy. (Vie de Julian, p. 61-67.)

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 23