[114] The Quinquennalia (games under which title had been previously instituted in honour of Julius Cæsar and Augustus) were revived by Nero, A.D. 60, again fell into disuse, and were again revived by Domitian.--Cf. Tacit. An. xiv. 20. [115] V. infra, Leo xxvi. c. 8. [116] Sirmium was very near the existing town of Peterwaradin. [117] Now the Balkan. [118] It is believed that Mattium is the same as Marburg; it is not quite certain. [119] These and other titles, such as "respectable" (spectabiles), "illustrious" (egregrie, illustres), were invented by the emperors of this century. They none of them appear to have conferred any substantive power. [120] This office had been first established by Augustus, who created two prefects of the prætorian cohorts, under whose command also all the soldiers in Italy were placed. Commodus raised the number to three, and Constantine to four, whom (when he abolished the prætorian cohort), he made, in fact, governors of provinces. There was one præfectus prætorio for Gaul, one for Italy, one for Illyricum, and one for the East. BOOK XXII. ARGUMENT. I. From fear of Constantius Julian halts in Dacia, and secretly consults the augurs and soothsayers.--II. When he hears of Constantius's death he passes through Thrace, and enters Constantinople, which he finds quiet; and without a battle becomes sole master of the Roman empire.--III. Some of the adherents of Constantius are condemned, some deservedly, some wrongfully.--IV. Julian expels from the palace all the eunuchs, barbers, and cooks--A statement of the vices of the eunuchs about the palace, and the corrupt state of military discipline.--V. Julian openly professes his adherence to the pagan worship, which he had hitherto concealed; and lets the Christian bishops dispute with one another.--VI. How he compelled some Egyptian litigants, who modestly sought his intervention, to return home.--VII. At Constantinople he often administers justice in the senate-house; he arranges the affairs of Thrace, and receives anxious embassies from foreign nations.--VIII. A description of Thrace, and of the Sea of Marmora, and of the regions and nations contiguous to the Black Sea.--IX. Having enlarged and beautified Constantinople, Julian goes to Antioch; on his road he joins the citizens of Nicomedia moving to restore their city; and at Ancyra presides in the court of justice.--X. He winters at Antioch, and presides in the court of justice; and oppresses no one on account of his religion.--XI. George, bishop of Alexandria, with two others, is dragged through the streets by the Gentiles of Alexandria, and torn to pieces and burnt, without any one being punished for this action.--XII. Julian prepares an expedition against the Persians, and, in order to know beforehand the result of the war, he consults the oracles; and