I will not answer. This is unseemly both towards God and the Emperor. Let me go.
Many Voices.
Make a ring round him!
Julian.
Hold him fast! What, you most luckless of judges, you have bungled the Emperor’s cause, and now you seek to escape? You would flee? Whither, whither? To the Scythians? Bring him before me! Tell me you servants that-are-to-be of the Emperor and of wisdom—has he not attempted to elude the Emperor’s power?
The Scholars.
Yes, yes.
Julian.
And what punishment do you award to such a misdeed?
Voices.