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Sed Julianus postquam ad Orientem Persas bello pulsaturus advenit, et publica (quam prius occultaverat) erga idolorum cultum ferri coepit insania, callidior caeteris persecutor, non vi, neque tormentis, sed praemiis, honoribus, blanditiis, persuasionibus, majorem pene populi partem, quam si atrociter pulsasset, elisit. Studia auctorum Gentilium Christianos adire prohibens, ludos litterarum illis solis, qui deos deasque venerarentur, patere decernit. Militiae cingulum non dari, nisi immolantibus jubet. Procurationem provinciarum, jurisque dicendi Christianis statuit non debere committi, utpote quibus etiam lex propria gladio uti vetuisset.
但猶利安，在他來到東方要以戰爭擊潰波斯人之後，便將先前隱藏對偶像崇拜的瘋狂公然顯露出來，作了一個比眾人更狡猾的逼迫者：他不用暴力，也不用刑罰，而用賞賜、尊榮、諂媚與勸誘，竟使百姓中極大的一部分敗壞，比他兇暴攻擊還要厲害。他禁止基督徒研讀外邦作家的著作，下令文學的學校只向那些敬拜諸神諸女神的人開放。他下令惟有獻祭的人才可佩戴軍職的腰帶。他規定，各省的治理與司法之權不可託付給基督徒，因為他們自己的律法禁止他們動刀。
But Julian, after he had come to the East to crush the Persians in war, and the madness which he had previously concealed toward the cult of idols began to be borne openly, a persecutor craftier than the rest, by no means undid the greater part of the people by rewards, honors, blandishments, and persuasions, more than if he had assailed them savagely. Forbidding Christians to approach the studies of the Gentile authors, he decreed that the schools of letters should lie open to those alone who venerated the gods and goddesses. He ordered that the belt of military service be given to none but those who sacrificed. He determined that the administration of provinces and of jurisdiction ought not to be entrusted to Christians, inasmuch as their own law had forbidden them to use the sword.
33:2
Et proficiebat quotidie in hujuscemodi legibus exquirendis, quibus et si quid versutum vel callidum, tamen quod minus videretur crudele, decerneret.
他在制定這類律法上天天有所進展，藉這些律法，縱然其中含有狡猾奸詐之處，他卻得以裁定那看似較不殘忍的事。
And he made progress daily in devising laws of this kind, by which, even if there was something cunning or crafty in them, yet he might decree what would seem less cruel.