ABSTRACT
THE man who became Emperor in such dramatic circumstances had had a singular career. At the age of six he had been saved together with his brother Gallus, aged thirteen, from the efforts of Constantius to rid himself of all possible rivals for the imperial authority. The instruments of his rescue had been the two Arianising bishops Eusebius of Nicomedia and Mark of Arethusa. Consequently, when the existence of the boys was revealed and they were confined in the fortress of Macellum, they were brought up under Arian influences. Julian himself, who was of a religious turn of mind, became a Reader.
