4th cent. AD

Amm. 21.6.4

The History 21.6.4

Author
Ammian
Translator
C. D. Yonge

The History

21.6.4

Ammian

translated by C. D. Yonge

4About the same time (his wife Eusebia having died some time before) he took another wife, named Faustina. Eusebia’s brothers were two men of consular rank, Hypatius and Eusebius. She had been a woman of pre-eminent beauty both of person and character, and for one of her high rank most courteous and humane. And to her favour and justice it was owing, as we have already mentioned, that Julian was saved from danger and declared Cæsar.