Note 115
Quo tam atroci casu repente consumpto, ad id usque
imperatoris ira provexit, ut quaestiones agitari juberet
solito acriores (yet Julian blames the lenity of the
magistrates of Antioch), et majorem ecclesiam Antiochiae
claudi. [Amm. l. c.] This interdiction was performed with
some circumstances of indignity and profanation: and the
seasonable death of the principal actor, Julian's uncle, is
related with much superstitious complacency by the Abbe de
la Bleterie, Vie de Julien, p. 362-369
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