"Ἔλλαβε πορφύρεος θάνατος καὶ μοῖρα κραταιή."
— Julian (emperor)

January 1, 1970

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Lines from Homer's Iliad which Julian recited upon his elevation to Caesar by Constantius II, reported in Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae, bk. 15, ch. 8, sec. 17 (tr. J. C. Rolfe, i, 1935); such elevations had often proven fatal to others.