Quo tam atroci casu repente consumpto, ad id usque
imperatoris ira provexit, ut quaestiones agitari juberet
solito acriores ( yet Julian blames the lenity of the
magistrates of Antioch ), et majorem ecclesiam Antiochiae
claudi. [Amm. l. c.]
This interdiction was performed with some circumstances of indignity and profanation: and the seasonable death of the principal actor, Julian's uncle, is related with much superstitious complacency by the Abbe de la Bleterie, Vie de Julien, p. 362-369