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Testimonia are ancient testimonies about a lost work of the emperor Julian (reigned 361-363): his own account of his campaign against the Germans while he was Caesar in Gaul, above all the battle of Strasbourg in 357. The passages come from the historian Eunapius, who refers readers to Julian's book on the battle, and from the orator Libanius, who praises Julian as both general and historian of his own deeds.
The book itself does not survive, so these testimonies are our evidence that Julian wrote a narrative of his Gallic victories. They show how contemporaries admired him as a man who united command and eloquence, and they illuminate the sources behind later accounts of his campaigns.
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