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[Julian,] the transgressor and the apostate, emperor of [the] Romans, cousin of the emperor Constantine the Great, born of his brother Dalmatus and a mother named Galla.[1] He wrote the so-called Caesars, which dealt with the emperors of the Romans starting with Augustus, and another book On the Three Figures [2] and the so-called Kronia and the Beard-hater or Antiochic, Whence the Evils, To the Uneducated, To Heraclitus the Cynic, How to be a Cynic, various letters, and other things.
Concerning Empedotimos, the transgressor says the following in the work entitled Kronia: "But we [speak] trusting in Empedotimus and Pythagoras on whom Heraclides the Pontian relied when he spoke," and a little before [he said],[3] "and the famous one and hierophant Iamblichus showed us."[4]
Many cases went before Julian, since men eagerly made use of his justice when he sat in judgment. And there were no delays to the advantage of the wrongdoers and those who had preconceived plans in those cases which involved an injustice considered normal according to customary laws. But they must either immediately prove what was just according to nature, or their delay and deferral for a time was suspect. And so he was grievous and troublesome [to them], and for these reasons the crowd of wrongdoers and evil men were stirred up: for it was not possible to do wrong nor could wrongdoers hide. Even his accessibility showed him more grievous to the villainous-—for, inasmuch as he often went out because of holy months and sacrifices and was mild by nature with respect to every encounter, those who wanted to speak with him were not prevented. And so he perceived and thought very little of this slander and anger of the wicked.[5]
Concerning the end of Julian the transgressor, the godless:[6] "but, when you conquer the Persian blood for your kingdom as far as Seleucia, clashing with your swords, then the fiery chariot will take you to Olympus mixed up in whirlwinds and whirlpools, after you have cast aside the many troubled pain of mortal peoples. And you will come to the ancestral court of the heavenly light, from which you wandered when you entered mortal form." And there is also the oracle that was given to him when he was spending time at Ctesiphon: "once, wise-counselor Zeus destroyed the race of the earth-born who were hateful to the blessed ones who have Olympian homes. God-like Julian, emperor of the Romans, fought and laid waste with powerful fire and iron the cities and long walls of the Persians who fight hand to hand, and he unceasingly conquered many other races--the very one who [7] who also seized the Alamannic soil of the Western Men in frequent battles and ravaged their fields."[8]

*)iouliano/s, o( paraba/ths kai\ a)posta/ths, *(rwmai/wn basileu/s, *kwnstanti/nou basile/ws tou= mega/lou a)neyio/s, a)po\ *dalma/tou a)delfou= au)tou= kai\ mhtro\s *ga/llas tou)/noma. e)/graye tou\s kaloume/nous *kai/saras: perie/xei de\ tou\s a)po\ *au)gou/stou *(rwmai/wn basilei=s: e(te/ran bi/blon peri\ tw=n triw=n sxhma/twn: kai\ ta\ kalou/mena *kro/nia: kai\ to\n *misopw/gwna h)\ *)antioxiko/n: *peri\ tou= po/qen ta\ kaka/, kai\ *pro\s tou\s a)paideu/tous: *pro\s to\n ku/na *(hra/kleiton pw=s kuniste/on: e)pistola\s pantodapa/s, kai\ a)/lla. o(/ti peri\ tou= *)empedoti/mou le/gei o( paraba/ths ou(/tws e)n toi=s e)pigrafome/nois *kroni/ois: h(mei=s de\ *)empedoti/mw| kai\ *puqago/ra| pisteu/ontes, oi(=s te e)kei=qen labw\n *(hraklei/dhs o( *pontiko\s e)/fh, kai\ mikrw=| pro/teron kai\ o( kleino\s h(mi=n e)/deice kai\ i(erofa/ntwr *)ia/mblixos. o(/ti e)pi\ to\n *)iouliano\n pollai\ di/kai e)xw/roun, xando\n e)mforoume/nwn tw=n a)nqrw/pwn th=s dikaiosu/nhs tou= kri/nontos: a)nabolai/ te ou)k h)=san e)p' au)tai=s, o(/sai no/mimon e)k tw=n sunh/qwn gramma/twn to\ a)/dikon i)/sxousin ei)s boh/qeian tw=n a)dikou/ntwn kai\ proeilhfo/twn: a)ll' h)\ paraxrh=ma e)/dei to\ i)=son e)le/gxesqai kata\ fu/sin, h)\ to\ me/llon kai\ diwqou/menon ei)s to\n xro/non u(/popton h)=n. baru\s me\n ou)=n kai\ luphro\s e)tu/gxane, kai\ e)pi\ toi=sde kai\ to\ tw=n ponhrw=n e)/qnos kai\ a)dikou/ntwn dihgei/reto. ou) ga\r a)dikei=n e)ch=n ou)de\ lanqa/nein a)dikou=si. baru/teron de\ au)to\n a)pedei/knue toi=s moxqhroi=s kai\ to\ eu)pro/sodon. oi(=a ga\r proi+o/ntos me\n polla/kis dia\ ta\s i(eromhni/as kai\ qusi/as, h(me/rou de\ fu/sei pro\s pa=san e)/nteucin tugxa/nontos, a)kw/luton tou\s deome/nous lo/gou tuxei=n. o( me\n ou)=n e)la/xiston th=s u(po\ tw=n ponhrw=n tau/ths blasfhmi/as te kai\ o)rgh=s h)|sqa/neto kai\ e)fro/ntize. peri\ th=s teleuth=s *)ioulianou= tou= paraba/tou, tou= a)qe/ou: a)ll' o(po/tan skh/ptroisi teoi=s *persh/i+on ai(=ma a)/xri *seleukei/hs klone/wn cife/essi dama/ssh|s, dh\ to/te se pro\s *)/olumpon a)/gei purilampe\s o)/xhma, a)mfi\ quelli/h|si kukw/menon e)n strofa/ligci, r(i/yanta brote/wn e)qe/wn polu/tlhton a)ni/hn. h(/ceis d' ai)qeri/ou fa/eos patrw/i+on au)lh/n, e)/nqen a)poplagxqei\s meroph/i+on e)s de/mas h)=lqes. e)/sti de\ kai\ o( xrhsmo\s o( doqei\s au)tw=|, o(/te peri\ *kthsifw=nta dih=gen. ghgene/wn pote\ fu=lon e)nh/rato mhtie/ta *zeu/s, e)/xqiston maka/ressin *)olu/mpia dw/mat' e)/xousi. *(rwmai/wn basileu\s *)iouliano\s qeoeidh\s marna/menos *persw=n po/lias kai\ tei/xea makra\ a)gxema/xwn die/perse puri\ kraterw=| te sidh/rw|, nwleme/ws de\ da/masse kai\ e)/qnea polla\ kai\ a)/lla, o(/rra kai\ *(esperi/wn a)ndrw=n *)alamaniko\n ou)=das u(smi/nais pukinai=sin e(lw\n a)la/pacen a)rou/ras.

Flavius Claudius Iulianus, Roman emperor 361-363. See generally Rowland Smith in OCD(4) s.v. Julian.
[1] Actually Julian was the younger son of Julius Constantius who was the half-brother of Constantine the Great (kappa 2284). See the DIR entry by Walter E. Roberts and Michael DiMaio, Jr., on Julian (web address 1) and that on the siblings of Constantine by Michael DiMaio, Jr., (web address 2). Apparently Julian’s father’s first wife was named Galla, but a second wife, Basilina, was his mother. Furthermore, the Suda’s 'Dalmatus' probably arises from confusion of Julius Constantius with his brother Flavius Dalmatius.
[2] That is peri\ tw=n triw=n sxhma/twn, an obscure work.
[3] “kai\ mikrw=| pro/teron” may be part of the quotation as translated in epsilon 1007, but Wright (see note 4) seems to think it should be understood as an intrusion of the entry’s author: "and a little earlier [Julian said]".
[4] The Suda has already quoted this passage under Empedotimus (epsilon 1007). Compare W.C. Wright’s translation and commentary of this fragment, pp. 296-7 in The Works of the Emperor Julian, vol. III, 1923.
[5] This paragraph = Blockley, Eunapius fr.25.[1].
[6] The following quotation is the first of two composed in dactylic hexameter in the manner of the oracle; the second is explicitly marked as an oracular pronouncement.
[7] The “o(/rra” of V is changed to “o(/s r(a” in the Anthologia Palatina (14.148). Perhaps amidst all the Homeric vocabulary here “o)/fra” should be read. This would mean changing "and he" to "until he", which would further emphasize the importance of the Alemannic victory.
[8] The passage from e)/sti de\ kai\ o( xrhsmo\s to a)la/pacen a)rou/ras is Blockley, Eunapius fr. 27.[7].

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Aaron Baker (Edited translation; edited Blockley translation citation.) on 14 September 2014@19:00:54.
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