Your phrases weary me. I will not have you here. Why cannot you keep to your stinking dens? Go home, I tell you!

A Woman.

Oh, Emperor, where is our home?

Another Woman.

Where are our houses? The heathen have plundered them and driven us out.

A Voice in the Throng.

Your soldiers have taken from us all our goods.

Other Voices.

Oh Emperor, Emperor, why have you seized upon our possessions?

Julian.