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[Who has entered with his own letter open.] Yes, it is Makrina. Her news is both sad and strange.

What is it? Tell me.

First of your noble brother Gallus. He rules sternly in Antioch.

Yes, Gallus is hard.—Does Makrina write "sternly."

[Looking at him.] Makrina writes "bloodily"

Ah, I thought as much! Why did the Emperor marry him to that dissolute widow, that Constantina?

[Reading.] Oh, what unheard-of infamy!

What is it, friend?

[To .] Does Makrina say nothing of what is happening in Antioch?

Nothing definite. What is it? You are pale

You knew the noble Clemazius, the Alexandrian?