[Julian,] the transgressor and the apostate, emperor of [the] Romans, cousin of the emperor Constantine the Great, born of his brother Dalmatus and a mother named Galla.[1] He wrote the so-called Caesars, which dealt with the emperors of the Romans starting with Augustus, and another book On the Three Figures [2] and the so-called Kronia and the Beard-hater or Antiochic, Whence the Evils, To the Uneducated, To Heraclitus the Cynic, How to be a Cynic, various letters, and other things.
Concerning Empedotimos, the transgressor says the following in the work entitled Kronia: "But we [speak] trusting in Empedotimus and Pythagoras on whom Heraclides the Pontian relied when he spoke," and a little before [he said],[3] "and the famous one and hierophant Iamblichus showed us."[4]
Many cases went before Julian, since men eagerly made use of his justice when he sat in judgment. And there were no delays to the advantage of the wrongdoers and those who had preconceived plans in those cases which involved an injustice considered normal according to customary laws. But they must either immediately prove what was just according to nature, or their delay and deferral for a time was suspect. And so he was grievous and troublesome [to them], and for these reasons the crowd of wrongdoers and evil men were stirred up: for it was not possible to do wrong nor could wrongdoers hide. Even his accessibility showed him more grievous to the villainous-—for, inasmuch as he often went out because of holy months and sacrifices and was mild by nature with respect to every encounter, those who wanted to speak with him were not prevented. And so he perceived and thought very little of this slander and anger of the wicked.[5]
Concerning the end of Julian the transgressor, the godless:[6] "but, when you conquer the Persian blood for your kingdom as far as Seleucia, clashing with your swords, then the fiery chariot will take you to Olympus mixed up in whirlwinds and whirlpools, after you have cast aside the many troubled pain of mortal peoples. And you will come to the ancestral court of the heavenly light, from which you wandered when you entered mortal form." And there is also the oracle that was given to him when he was spending time at Ctesiphon: "once, wise-counselor Zeus destroyed the race of the earth-born who were hateful to the blessed ones who have Olympian homes. God-like Julian, emperor of the Romans, fought and laid waste with powerful fire and iron the cities and long walls of the Persians who fight hand to hand, and he unceasingly conquered many other races--the very one who [7] who also seized the Alamannic soil of the Western Men in frequent battles and ravaged their fields."[8]