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This exclamation has often been attributed to Julian, as his last words, but it actually originates much later with the derisive account of his death by Theodoret, Ecclesiastical History, bk. 3, ch. 20 (c. 429), as an exclamation he made upon being fatally wounded; no prior account of such an declaration exists, even among those writers most hostile to Julian and his policies. Variant translations | Thou hast won, O Galilean! — Robert Parsons, A Christian Directory (1673) p. 201 | Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean. — Swinburne, "Hymn to Proserpine", l. 35 (1866) | You have conquered, Galilean! — Matthew Spinka, Chronicle of John Malalas, Books VIII–XVIII (Chicago UP, 1940) p. 76, footnote | You have won, Galilean. — Denis de Rougemont, Man's Western Quest (New York: Harper & Bros, 1957) p. 48

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