Note 078 Ammianus records the consuls of the year 363, before he proceeds to mention the thoughts of Julian. Templum . . . instaurare sumptlbus cogitabat immodicis. Warburton has a secret wish to anticipate the design; but he must have understood from former examples, that the execution of such a work would have demanded many years.

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