Moonlight. Among the ruins of the temple of Apollo.
The Emperor Julian and Maximus the Mystic, both in robes, appear among the overthrown columns.
Maximus.
Whither, my brother?
Julian.
Where it is loneliest.
Maximus.
But here—in this desolation? Among these rubbish-heaps——?
Julian.
Is not the whole earth a rubbish-heap?