Last Pagan Roman emperor, reigned 361 to 363
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The last pagan emperor of Rome, he tried to roll back Christianity and restore the old gods — then died with an arrow in his side during a disastrous retreat through Persia, ending the experiment forever.
Julian was born in 331, a nephew of Constantine the Great, and became an orphan at six when his father was executed during the family purges of 337. He survived his cousin Constantius II's reign under close watch, but was granted freedom to study Greek philosophy in the east. In 355, Constantius appointed him to govern Gaul, where he beat back Germanic incursions and won his soldiers' loyalty — so much that in 360 they proclaimed him emperor at Lutetia, igniting a civil war that never came to battle. Constantius died before they could meet, naming Julian his successor. As sole emperor, Julian…
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Whither are we fleeing, my most valiant men? Do you not know that flight never leads to safety, but shows the folly of a useless effort?
Can anyone be proved innocent, if it be enough to have accused him?
Nature loves to hide her secrets, and she does not suffer the hidden truth about the essential nature of the gods to be flung in naked words to the ears of the profane...
I had imagined that the prelates of the Galilaeans were under greater obligations to me than to my predecessor.
They are irreverent to the gods and disobedient to our edicts, lenient as they are.
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