Six years ago.—I knew you at once.
[Coming nearer.
Julian.
Agathon;—by the holy cross, but I believe it is!
Agathon.
Look at me; look well——
Julian.
[Embracing and kissing him.] Friend of my childhood! Playmate! Dearest of them all! And you are here? How wonderful! You have come all the long way over the mountains, and then across the sea,—the whole long way from Cappadocia?
Agathon.
I came two days ago, by ship, from Ephesus. Oh, how I have sought in vain for you these two days. At the palace gates the guards would not let me pass, and——