78. See Ammianus (xxiv. 7), Libanius, (Orat. Parentalis, c.
132, 133, p. 356, 357), Zosimus (1. iii. [c. 26] p. 183),
Zonaras (tom. ii. l. xiii. [c. 13] p. 26), Gregory (Orat.
iv. p. 116), and Augustine (The City of God, 1. iv. c. 29,1.
v. c. 21). Of these Libanius alone attempts a faint apology
for his hero; who, according to Ammianus, pronounced his own
condemnation by a tardy and ineffectual attempt to
extinguish the flames.