Oribases.
Good, good! But nobody else? No great person? None of the generals?
The Soldiers.
No, none.
Oribases.
Not here then! Oh, Eutherius, how could you?
Eutherius.
Could I help? Could I help it? I have not closed my old eyes for three nights
Oribases.
[To the soldiers.] You must help us to search. I demand it in the name of the general-in-chief. Spread yourselves among the trees; and should you find any great person, report it at the watch-*fire yonder. The Soldiers. We will not fail, sir! [They all go out by different ways, to the left. Soon after, the Emperor emerges from behind a tree on the right. He listens, looks round, and beckons to some one behind him.
Julian.
Hist! Come forward, Maximus! They did not see us.
Maximus.
[From the same side.] Oribases was one of them.
