Book 28
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When the deputation had been admitted to the council-chamber and had presented their request, Valentinian said that he had never made such a decree, and cried out that he was the victim of calumny. But the quaestor EupraxiusCf. xxvii. 6, 14. mildly contradicted him, and through his freedom of speech the cruel order, which surpassed all examples of harshness, was rescinded.
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At about that same time Lollianus, a youth just growing his first beard, son of the ex-prefect Lampadius,Cf. xxvii. 3, 5. as the result of a strict examination by Maximinus, was convicted of having written a book on destructive magic arts, when adult age had not yet endowed him with sound judgment. And when it was feared that he would be exiled, by his father’s advice he appealed to the emperor and was ordered to be taken to his court; but he went from the smoke (as the saying is)Cf. from the frying-pan into the fire and xiv. 11, 12. into the fire; for he was handed over to Phalangius, consular governor of Baetica, and died at the hand of the dread executioner.
