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Maurus.

They are drawn already!

Women.

Strike him, cut him down!

Julian.

I thank you for coming! Maurus! Honest Maurus! Yes, yes; you I can trust.

A Batavian Soldier.

How dare you send us to the ends of the earth? Was <g>that</g> what you swore to us?

Other Allies.

Not over the Alps! We are not bound to go!

Julian.

Not to Rome! I will not go; they would murder me, as they murdered my brother Gallus!

Maurus.

What say you, my lord?

Decentius.

Do not believe him!

Julian.

Lay no finger on the noble Decentius; the fault is not his.

Laipso.

[A Subaltern.] That is true; the fault is Caesar's.