Is it not written “Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s”? I require all aid in this campaign. You can tend my sick and wounded. In that you will be serving the Galilean as well; and if you still think that a duty, I counsel you to make good use of your time. His end is near!
[Some soldiers have surrounded Basil and Makrina, others hasten through the thicket towards the house.
Makrina.
Sunset over our home; sunset of hope and of light in the world! Oh Basil! that we should live to see the night!
Basil.
The light is.
Julian.
The light shall be. Turn your backs to the sunset, Galileans! Your faces to the east, to the east, where Helios lies dreaming. Verily I say unto you, you shall see the Sun-King of the world.
[He goes out to the right; all follow him.