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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?

Wiles of the Galileans to build up a wall of wrath and hate between the two champions.

Yet you will not deny that it was Libanius?

I will deny everything to the uttermost.

The lampoons were not his?

Not one of them. They have all been hatched in the palace, and spread abroad under his name

Ah, what do you tell me?

What I will avouch before all the world. You have a sharp tongue—who knows but that you yourself

I! But can I believe this? Libanius did not write them? Not one of them?