Note 022
Ipse autem Antiochiam egressurus, Heliopoliten quendam
Alexandrum Syracae jurisdictioni praefecit, turbulentum et
saevum; dicebatque non illum meruisse, sed Antiochensibus
avaris et contumeliosis hujusmodi judicem convenire. Ammian.
xxiii. 2. Libanius (Epist. 722, p. 346, 347 [ed. Wolf. Amst.
1738])
who confesses to Julian himself that he had shared
the general discontent, pretends that Alexander was an
useful, though harsh, reformer of the manners and religion
of Antioch.
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
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