And meanwhile you let me pine away with longing. Look at me. Have I not grown a century older?
Libanius.
Oh, have I not suffered as great a change? You did not recognise me.
Julian.
This meeting has been to both of us as a bath, from which we go forth healed.
[They embrace and kiss again.
And now, beloved friend, now tell me what has brought you hither to-day; for I cannot doubt that you have some special errand.
Libanius.
To say nothing of my longing—so it is. Would that another had been sent in my stead! But the post of honour to which the confidence of the citizens has summoned me makes it my duty to perform all missions alike.
Julian.