83. This interesting story, which Zosimus has abridged, is
related by Eunapius (in Excerpt. Legationum, p. l5,16,17
[ed. Paris; p.1 l sq.ed. Ven.; cap. i. p. 41 sqq. ed.
Bonn]), with all the amplifications of Grecian rhetoric: but
the silence of Libanius, of Ammianus, and of Julian himself,
renders the truth of it extremely suspicious.