31. About seventy years after the death of Julian he
executed a task which had been feebly attempted by Philip of
Side, a prolix and contemptible writer. Even the work of
Cyril has not entirely satisfied the most favourable judges:
and the Abbe de la Bleterie (Preface a l'Hist. de Jovien, p.
30, 32) wishes that some theologien philosophe (a strange
centaur) would undertake the refutation of Julian.