Book 25
5.5
Now Jovian, as soon as he had been clothed in the imperial robes and suddenly brought out from his tent, already hastening through the ranks of the soldiers, who were getting ready to march.
5.6
And since the army extended for four miles, those in the van, on hearing some men shouting Jovianus Augustus, repeated the same sounds much more loudly; for struck by the near relationship of the name, since it differed in only one letter,Namely v for l. The sound of Iu and Io is so similar that Ammianus disregards it. they thought that Julian had recovered and was being brought out amid the usual great acclaim. But when Jovianus a taller and bent men was seen advancing, they suspected what had happened, and all burst into tears and lamentation.
5.7
But if any onlooker of strict justice with undue haste blames such a step taken in a moment of extreme danger, he will, with even more justice, reproach sailors, if after the loss of a skilled pilot, amid the raging winds and seas, they committed the guidance of the helm of their ship to any companion in their peril, whoever he might be.
