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Julian the Apostate, detail of a marble statue; in the Louvre, Paris.
Julian, the Roman emperor also known as "the Apostate," died on June 26 or 27, 363 CE. He was mortally wounded during a retreat from Ctesiphon in what is now central Iraq; specifically, he was struck by a spear during a skirmish near SÄmarrÄŹ¾ and died the following night.12