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[10] And whereas it would have been better to fight ten battles than give up any one of these, the band of flatterers pressed upon the timid [p. 535] emperor, harping upon the dreaded name of Procopius, 1 and declaring that if he returned 2 on learning of the death of Julian, he would with the fresh troops under his command easily and without opposition make himself emperor.

1 Julian had named Procopius as his successor; see xxiii. 3, 2.

2 He was in hiding, probably at Chalcedon; cf. xxvi. 6, 3-5.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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