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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Voulgaroktonou, post: 3205835, member: 84047&quot;]I&#039;ve loved Julian&#039;s coins since reading Gore Vidal&#039;s novel Julian in 1964. But I can&#039;t think of Julian without also remembering the grudging admiration the 4th c. Christian poet Prudentius paid to him in his work &quot;On the Divinity of Christ&quot;, lines 449-454 where he says &quot;Yet of all the emperors one there was in my boyhood, I remember, a brave leader in arms, a lawgiver, famous for speech and action, one who cared for his country’s weal, but not for maintaining true religion, for he loved myriad gods. False to God, however true to the world, he would bend the head of majesty before Minerva’s feet, would lick a clay Juno’s sandals...&quot; That line above, &quot;perfidus ille Deo, quamvis non perfidus orbi,&quot; touches me every time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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