Nebridius punished

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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · oath of fidelity · mobilization and recruitment · intercepted letters · illyricum incursion

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 secondary

Edward Gibbon · Written 1782; revised 1845 (for the later edition context of the modern title page)
Chapter XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To > Chapter XXII: Julian Declared Emperor.—Part II. (3/8)

Learning from intercepted letters that Constantius is mobilizing Barbarians for a western invasion, Julian proposes a daring incursion into Illyricum, gains soldierly support, administers an oath of fidelity, and treats the disapproving praetorian prefect Nebridius harshly yet safely.

9,) Zosimus, (l. iii. p. 154,) and even Zonaras, (tom. ii. l. xiii. p. 20, 21, 22,) who, on this occasion, appears to have possessed and used some valuable materials.] The situation of Julian required a vigorous and immediate resolution. He had discovered, from intercepted letters, that his adversary, sacrificing the interest of the state to that of the monarch, had again excited the Barbarians to …