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Jovian, (Flavius Claudius Jovianus) (c. 331–364)

Roman emperor from 363. Captain of the imperial bodyguard, he was chosen as emperor by the troops after Julian's death. He concluded an unpopular peace with the Sassanian Empire and restored Christianity as the state religion.



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It possesses zones of perpetual springs, summers, autumns, and winters; every Jovian may choose for himself what climate he likes, and there spend the whole of his life in security from all variations of temperature.
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