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caesar's apostasy.
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Julian.
Yes.
Maximus.
How was he called in life?
Julian.
Judas Iscariot.
Maximus.
[Springing up.] The abyss blossoms; the night betrays itself! Julian. [Shrieks to him.] Forth with the third! Maximus. He shall come!
[He waves the wand.
Come forth, thou third corner-stone! Come forth, thou third great freed-man under necessity! [He casts himself down again on the couch, and turns his face away.
What seest thou?
Julian.
I see nothing.
Maximus.
And yet he is here.
[He waves the wand again.
By Solomon's seal, by the eye in the triangle—I conjure thee—come to sight!
What seest thou now?
Julian.
Nothing, nothing!
