69. We are ignorant of the actual office of this excellent
minister, whom Julian afterwards created praefect of Gaul.
Sallust was speedily recalled by the jealousy of the
emperor; and we may still read a sensible but pedantic
discourse (p. 240-252), in which Julian deplores the loss of
so valuable a friend to whom he acknowledges himself
indebted for his reputation. See La Bleterie, Preface a la
Vie de Jovien, p. 20.