Note 103 Ammianus (xxv. 10) has drawn from the life an impartial portrait of Jovian, to which the younger Victor has added some remarkable strokes. The Abbe de la Bleterie (Histoire de Jovien, tom. i. p. 1-238) has composed an elaborate history of his short reign - a work remarkably distinguished by elegance of style, critical disquisition, and religious prejudice.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 24