[69] Cp. Beugnot, Histoire de la destruction du paganisme en Occident, 1835, i, 430. [↑]
[70] De errore profanarum religionum, end. [↑]
[71] See it translated in full by Lardner in his Testimonies of Ancient Heathens, ch. xlix. Works, ed. 1835, vol. viii. [↑]
[72] Lardner, as cited, pp. 25–27. [↑]
[73] As to the high character of Libanius, who used his influence to succour his Christian friends in the reign of Julian, see Lardner, pp. 15–17. [↑]
[74] Milman, Hist. of Christianity, bk. iii, ch. vi; vol. ii, p. 131. See the passage there cited from the Funeral Oration of Libanius On Julian, as to Christians building houses with temple stones; also the further passages, pp. 129, 161, 212, of Mr. King’s tr. of the Oration in his Julian the Emperor (Bohn Lib.). [↑]
[76] Gibbon, ch. xlvii. Bohn ed. v, 211–52, 264, 268, 272. Mosheim, passim. [↑]