Eum Constantius . . . facundiae vi dejectum Imperio in
privatum otium removit. Quae gloria post natum Imperium soli
processit eloquio clementiaque, etc. Aurelius Victor [de
Caesar. c. 42].
Julian and Themistius (Orat. iii. and iv.) adorn this exploit with all the artificial and gaudy colouring of their rhetoric.