121. The people of Carrhae, a city devoted to Paganism,
buried the inauspicious messenger under a pile of stones
(Zosimus, l. iii. [c. 34] p. 196). Libanius, when he
received the fatal intelligence, cast his eye on his sword;
but he recollected that Plato had condemned suicide, and
that he must live to compose the Panegyric of Julian
(Libanius de Vita sua, tom. ii. p. 45, 46 [ed. Morell.
Paris. 627]) .