Haec cum in comitatu Constantii subinde noscerentur'erat enim necesse, tamquam apparitorem, Caesarem super omnibus gestis ad Augusti referre scientiam'omnes qui plus poterant in palatio, adulandi professores iam docti, recte consulta prospereque completa vertebant in deridiculum, talia sine modo strepentes insulse: In odium venit cum victoriis suis capella, non homo, ut hirsutum Iulianum carpentes, appellantesque loquacem talpam et purpuratam simiam et litterionem Graecum, et his congruentia plurima.
Presently, when all this became known at Constantius court'for it was necessary that Caesar, like any subordinate, should render an account to Augustus of all his acts'all those who had the chief influence in the palace and were now past masters in flattery turned Julians well-devised and successful achievements into mere mockery by endless silly jests of this sort: This fellow, a nanny-goat and no man, is getting insufferable with his victories, jibing at him for being hairy, and calling him a chattering mole and an ape in purple, and a Greekish pedant, and other names like these;
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