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The Works Of The Emperor Julian - Letters, Epigrams, Against The Galileans, Fragments (Hardcover)
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The Works Of The Emperor Julian - Letters, Epigrams, Against The Galileans, Fragments (Hardcover)
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PANEGYRIC IN HONOUR OF THE EMPEROR CONSTANTIUS I Have long desired,
most mighty Emperor, to sing the praises of your valour and
achievements, to recount your campaigns, and to tell how you
suppressed the tyrannies; how your persuasive eloquence drew away
one usurper's1 bodyguard; how you overcame another2 by force of
arms. But the vast scale of your exploits deterred me, because what
I had to dread was not that my words would fall somewhat short of
your achievements, but that I should prove wholly unequal to my
theme. That men versed in political debate, or poets, should find
it easy to compose a panegyric on your career is not at all
surprising. Their practice in speaking, their habit of declaiming
in public supplies them abundantly with a well-warranted
confidence. But those who have neglected this field and chosen
another branch of literary study which devotes itself to a form of
composition little adapted to win popular favour and that has not
the hardihood to exhibit itself in its nakedness in every theatre,
no matter what, would naturally hesitate to make speeches of the
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belief that it is she who inspires their verse, obviously gives
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