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Julian
Julian the Apostate, detail of a marble statue; in the Louvre, Paris.
After Julian was orphaned at the age of five, he and his surviving half brother, Gallus, were brought up in obscurity. They were initially raised by Eusebius, the Arian bishop of Nicomedia in Bithynia, and were later kept at the remote estate of Macellum in Cappadocia.1