Ursulus.
Gracious Emperor, by your august predecessor’s command, the daily maintenance of twenty men is assigned him——
Julian.
Aha! No more than that?
Ursulus.
Yes, sire; latterly he has had free stabling in the imperial stables, together with a certain yearly allowance of money, and a gold piece for every time he——
Julian.
And all this for a barber! What, then, must the others——? This shall not last a day longer.——Admit the foreign envoys!
[Nevita goes out by the back.
I will receive them with uncut hair. Better so; for although I know well that it is not the unkempt hair, nor the tattered cloak, that makes the true philosopher, yet surely the example given by both Antisthenes and Diogenes may well be respected by one who—even on the throne—desires to follow in such great teachers’ footsteps.