Note 053 Julian (ad S. P. Q. Athen. p. 270) charged his cousin Constantius with the whole guilt of a massacre from which he himself so narrowly escaped. His assertion is confirmed by Athanasius, who, for reasons of a very different nature, was not less an enemy of Constantius (tom. i. p. 856). Zosimus [ii. 40] joins in the same accusation. But the three abbreviators, Eutropius and the Victors, use very qualifying expressions:- "sinente poitus quam jubente;" "incertum quo suasore;" "vi militum."

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Note to Chapter 18 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon