ABSTRACT
It is with some vexation that we turn to the third Julian Emperor.527 Tiberius and Augustus were men of importance, distinguished personalities of the kind with whom the historian is constantly having to occupy himself. This Emperor, however, was a boy not yet of age-pure, unadulterated mediocrity, half-crazed and half-witted. There is no other Emperor about whom so many anecdotes are told, but they do not help us to gain a sounder assessment.
