This  work  of  Apollinarina  mutt  have  been  conqxwed
b  a  Tery  short  un»  after  tbe  sppeaiance  of  tbe  emper-
w'a  treatise,  aince  Julian  ai^wais  to  bave  read  it  before
he  quilted  Antioch,  March  6lh,A.D.  963.  Julian  fve-
tended  10  contemn  hia  opponent,  and  wrote  to  tertain
bishops  of  tin  church  this  paltry  jeu  de  ituU:  'kv-
tfifw,  tyvuv,  Kariyvuv,  "I  have  read,  cOmpreheDded,
condemned  it."  To  this  one  of  tfaem,  probably  St.
Basil,  replied,  'Avfyvut,  iM,'  o£x  tyvoc-  el  yip  tyvui,
fix  Av  Kuriyvuf,  "  Thou  bast  read,  but  not  com-
prehended it ;  for  if  thou  badst  comprehended  it  tboii
wouldst  not  have  condemned  it."  Fifty  yean,  how-
itver,  elapsed  before  the  work  of  Jultao  was  completelv
refuted  by  prodoctkma  carefully  composed,  tnfljria^
•ntorod  into  a  deUfl  of  the  at^ams  whieh  hmton
adnneed  ^^"^^  ChriatiBni^  ind  tho  ebUMtar  of  iti


IMvioe  fimnder.  EidMr  tbe  Mbjoet  vna  consideiud,  fm
the  interval,  aa  cmnplctely  eihausled,  or  dae  tbe  drnd-
fol  cataatTophe  which  teimioaled  tbe  life  of  Julian,  and
whieh  waa  viewed  as  a  panisbment  inflicted  by  Divin*
vengeance,  had  caoaed  Ua  writings  to  Mi  into  neglect.
After  the  period  of  dme  above  aHiided  lo^  Pbibp  of
Side,  Su  Cyrill  of  Alexaodraa,  and  lleodoiet.  under-
took the  task  of  eonqiletety  proatratii^  the  ammcnu
of. the  "apoaute  eatperor,"  and  it  la  to  the  won  of  St.
