Go, I tell you! If I leave this house of corruption, it will be as Emperor.
Sallust.
I implore you——; what seek you here in the darkness?
Julian.
Light. Go, go!
Sallust.
If Caesar loiters, I fear he will find the way barred against him.
[He goes by the passage on the left. A little while afterwards, Maximus the Mystic ascends the steps; he wears a white sacrificial fillet round his brow; in his hand is a long, bloody knife.
Julian.
Speak, my Maximus!