22. At Antioch, where he was obliged to attend the emperor
to the temple, he struck a priest who had presumed to purify
him with lustral water (Sozomen, l. vi. c. 6. Theodoret, l.
iii. c. 16). Such public defiance might become Valentinian;
but it could leave no room for the unworthy delation of the
philosopher Maximus, which supposes some more private
offence ;(Zosimus, l. iv. [c. 2] p. 200, 201.)