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Composers of Court epigrams, who mockingly nicknamed Julian "Victorinus" or "the little Conqueror," were astonished to receive, time after time, news of the Caesar's continual victories. The laughable gradually became the terrible. General discussion arose about witchcrafts and secret daemonic forces backing the fortunes of the friend of Maximus of Ephesus.
Julian had conquered and restored to the Roman Empire Argentoratum, Bracomagum,[2] Tres Tabernae,[3] Noviomagus,[4] Vangiones,[5] Moguntiacum.[6]