18/36 258, 259,) is certainly mistaken in sending Libanius himself to Constantinople. His own orations fix him at Antioch.] [Footnote 86: Libanius (Orat.i.p.6, edit. Venet.) declares, that under such a reign the fear of a massacre was groundless and absurd, especially in the emperor's absence, for his presence, according to the eloquent slave, might have given a sanction to the most bloody acts.] [Footnote 87: Laodicea, on the sea-coast, sixty-five miles from Antioch, (see Noris Epoch. |