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Julian.
Speak the truth! No, no; this cannot be true. How reconcile it with the scoffs and jibes that? Who scoffs at one whose friendship he would seek?
The Philosopher.
Wiles of the Galileans to build up a wall of wrath and hate between the two champions.
Julian.
Yet you will not deny that it was Libanius?
The Philosopher.
I will deny everything to the uttermost.
Julian.
The lampoons were not his?
The Philosopher.
Not one of them. They have all been hatched in the palace, and spread abroad under his name
Julian.
Ah, what do you tell me?
The Philosopher.
What I will avouch before all the world. You have a sharp tongue—who knows but that you yourself
Julian.
I! But can I believe this? Libanius did not write them? Not one of them?
