What then, sire?

Julian.

Ask the executioner. Both you and the citizens of Caesarea shall be taught what you have to expect if, in your Galilean obstinacy, you should abide by your resolve.

[The Emperor goes out in great wrath, to the left; Eunapius and his witnesses retire with the watch; the others disperse.

SCENE SECOND.

A market-place in Antioch. In front, on the right, a street debouches into the market; to the left, at the back, there is a view into a narrow and crooked street.

A great concourse of people fills the market. Hucksters cry their wares.[wares.] In several places the townspeople have gathered into clusters, talking eagerly.[eagerly.]

A Citizen.

Good God of heaven, when did this misfortune happen?

Another Citizen.