Note 066 For the guilt and punishment of Artemius, see Julian (Epist. x. p. 379) and Ammianus (xxii. 1l, and Vales, ad loc.). The merit of Artemius, who demolished temples, and was put to death by an apostate, has tempted the Greek and Latin churches to honour him as a martyr. But as ecclesiastical history attests that he was not only a tyrant, but an Arian, it is not altogether easy to justify this indiscreet promotion. Tillemont, Mem. Eccles. tom. vii. p. 1319.

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Note to Chapter 22 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon