Ibi moratus aliquot dies, dum necessaria parat, et Lunae (quae religiose per eos colitur tractus), ritu locorum fert sacra, dicitur ante aras, nullo arbitrorum admisso occulte paludamentum purpureum propinquo suo tradidisse Procopio, mandasseque arripere fidentius principatum, si se interisse didicerit apud Parthos.
Having delayed there several days for necessary preparations, and to offer sacrifices according to the native rites to the Moon, which is religiously venerated in that region, before the altar, with no witness present, Julian is said secretly to have handed his purple mantle to his relative Procopius, and to have ordered him boldly to assume the rule, if he learned that the emperor had died among the Parthians.
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