Themistius.

So young,—and already so highly honoured above all other Emperors!

Mamertinus.

I ask: will not Fame lack lungs to proclaim your renown, if the gods, as I confidently hope, grant you a long life?

Themistius.

The yell of fear, uttered by the flying Alemanni on the furthest shores of the Rhine, has swept eastward until it dashed against Taurus and Caucasus——

Mamertinus.

——and now rolls, like the echoes of thunder, over the whole of Asia.

Nevita.

What has so overawed the Indians is the likeness between our Greek Julian and the Macedonian Alexander——