2. Ammian. xvi. 12 [fin.]. The orator Themistius (iv. p. 56,
57) believed whatever was contained in the Imperial letters,
which were addressed to the senate of Constantinople.
Aurelius Victor, who published his Abridgment in the last
year of Constantius, ascribes the German victories to the
wisdom of the emperor and the fortune of the Caesar. Yet
the historian, soon afterwards, was indebted to the favour
or esteem of Julian for the honour of a brass statue, and
the important offices of consular of the second Pannonia and
praefect of the city. Ammian. xxi. 10.