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Envy cannot hide under the short cloak.

What cannot hide shows forth.

You have a sharp tongue, noble Galilean.

Why Galilean? What proclaims me a Galilean?

Your court apparel.

There is a philosopher beneath it; for I wear a very coarse shirt.—But tell me, what do you seek in Athens?

What did Pontius Pilate seek?

Nay, nay! Is not truth here, where Libanius is?

[Looking hard at him.] H'm!—Libanius? Libanius will soon be silent. Libanius is weary of the strife, my lord!

Weary? He—the invulnerable, the ever-victorious?