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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1762862, member: 19463&quot;]To me, Procopius has a lesson to teach.&nbsp; What should he have done if, if fact, the story is true that Julian sent him an Imperial Robe but died before making it official?&nbsp; He chose to return it to Jovian and asked to be allowed to retire.&nbsp; That seems to have been OK with Jovian but not with Valentinian/Valens who probably did not like the idea of someone around with a stronger case for legitimacy than theirs.&nbsp; Realizing they would not let him live in retirement, he made a grab for power which failed and probably caused Valens to select a worse death for him than might seem necessary.&nbsp; One could make a good case for his being the legitimate emperor but being right does not make one the winner in this particular game.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.roman-emperors.org/procopis.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.roman-emperors.org/procopis.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.roman-emperors.org/procopis.htm</a></p><p>Above discusses the little that is known of the man.&nbsp; When researching him, be aware there was a later writer by the same name who gets a lot more coverage in search engines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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