With this spear will I slay the beast with seven heads, and then I shall get back my soul again. Christ himself has promised me that. He was with me to-night.
The first Soldier.
Hunger and weariness have turned his brain.
One of the New-comers.
To the camp with him; there he can sleep his weariness away.
Agathon.
Let me go! Oh, if you but knew what spear this is!
[The soldiers lead him off by the front, to the right.
The third Soldier.
What could he mean by that beast?
The first Soldier.
That is one of the Galilean secrets. They have many such secrets among them.
[Eutherius and Oribases enter hastily from the right, looking anxiously about.
Eutherius.
Do you not see him?
Oribases.
No.—Ah, soldiers!—Tell me, good friends, has any one passed by here?
The first Soldier.
Yes, a detachment of spearmen.
