Men and Women.
The Galilean has overcome the Emperor! The Galilean is greater than Julian!
Julian.
[To the priest of Cybele.] You may go home, old man! And take your goose with you. We will have no sacrifice this evening.
[He turns to the crowd.
I heard some say the Galilean had conquered. It may appear so; but I tell you it is a delusion. Oh senseless clods; oh contemptible dolts,—believe me, it will not be long before the tables are turned! I will; I will! Ah, only wait! I am already collecting material for a treatise against the Galilean. It is to be in seven chapters; and when his followers have read <g>that</g>,—and when "The Beard-Hater," too Give me your arm, Fromentinus! This defiance has wearied me.
[To the guard, as he passes the fountain.
Set Cyrillus free!
[He returns with his retinue to the city.
The Crowd at the Fountain. [Shouting after him with scornful laughter.] There goes the altar-butcher?—There goes the ragged bear!—There goes the ape with the long arms! SCENE FOURTH Moonlight. Among the ruins of the temple of Apollo.
The Emperor Julian and Maximus the Mystic, both in robes, appear among the overthrown columns.
