21. Her remains were sent to Rome, and interred near those
of her sister Constantina, in the suburb of the Via
Nomentana . Ammian. xxi. 1. Libanius has composed a very weak
apology, to justify his hero from a very absurd charge of
poisoning his wife, and rewarding her physician with his
mother's jewels. (See the seventh of seventeen new orations,
published at Venice 1754, from a MS. in St. Mark's library,
p. 117-127.) Elpidius, the Praetorian praefect of the East,
to whose evidence the accuser of Julian appeals, is
arraigned by Libanius as effeminate and ungrateful; yet
the religion of Elpidius is praised by Jerom (tom. i. p.
243), and his humanity by Ammianus (xxi. 6).