29. Libanius and Gregory Nazianzen have exhausted the arts
as well as the powers of their eloquence to represent Julian
as the first of heroes, or the worst of tyrants. Gregory was
his fellow-student at Athens; and the symptoms, which he so
tragically describes, of the future wickedness of the
apostate, amount only to some bodily imperfections, and to
some peculiarities in his speech and manner. He protests,
however, that he then foresaw and foretold the calamities of
the church and state (Greg. Nazianzen, Orat. iv. p. 121,
122).