Quibus ita nullo interturbante perfectis, constricti rapidis febribus, imperatores ambo diu spe vivendi firmata, ut erant in inquirendis rebus graviores quam in componendis, suspectas morborum causas investigandas acerrime, Ursatio officiorum magistro, Delmatae crudo, et Viventio Sisciano, quaestori tunc commiserunt, ut loquebatur pertinax rumor, invidiam cientes Iuliani memoriae principis, amicisque eius, tamquam clandestinis praestigiis laesi.
No sooner were these arrangements perfected without disturbance than both emperors were seized with violent and lingering fevers; but as soon as their hope of life was assured, being more successful in investigating various matters than in settling them, they commissioned Ursatius, the chief-marshal of the court, a rough Dalmatian, and Viventius of Siscia, who was then quaestor, to make a strict investigation of what they suspected to be the cause of these diseases. Persistent rumour had it, that their purpose was, by asserting that they had been harmed by secret sorcery, to rouse hatred of the memory of the emperor Julian and his friends.
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