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] Here, in this treatise, I have given you a name which; you shall hear

''He searches through the bundles of papers. At that moment enters from the right, richly clad, and with a haughty mien.''

[In a low tone.] Ah, you come in the nick of time, most honoured Libanius!

[Continuing his search.] Where can it be

[To .] What mean you, friend?

The Emperor is much enraged; your coming will pacify him.

Ah, here I have it

[With annoyance.

What does that man want?

Sire, this is

No matter, no matter! Now you shall hear whether I know you or not. There are among the wretched Galileans a number of madmen who call themselves penitents. These renounce all earthly possessions, and yet demand great gifts of the fools who treat them as holy men and almost as objects of worship. Behold, you are like