Julian.

Or is on the point of departing; for are not you also bound for the Piraeus?

Libanius.

I, my brother? What should I want at the Piraeus?

Julian.

Our Libanius, then, is the only teacher who does not know that a ship has just arrived from Ephesus.

Libanius.

Why, my friend, what have I to do with that ship?

Julian.

It is loaded to the water’s edge with embryo philosophers——