Ubi cum pro ingenita pietate consecrato principi parentasset, pergeretque ad Duram (desertum oppidum) procul militarem cuneum conspicatus, stetit immobilis, eique dubitanti quid ferrent, offertur ab eis immanissimi corporis leo, cum aciem peteret, multiplici telorum iactu confossus.
When Julian had there, in accordance with his native piety, made offerings to the deified emperor, and was on his way to Dura (a deserted town), he saw a troop of soldiers in the distance and halted. And while he was in doubt what they were bringing, they presented him with a lion of huge size, which had attacked their line and had been slain by a shower of arrows.
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