Another Soldier.
They sing like owls and night ravens.
A third Soldier.
Yet would I willingly be with them. ’Tis safer with the Galileans than with us. The God of the Galileans is stronger than our gods.
The first Soldier.
The thing is that the Emperor has angered the gods. How could he think of setting himself up in their place?
The third Soldier.
What is worse is that he has angered the Galileans’ God. Have you not heard, they say positively that, a few nights since, he and his magician ripped open a pregnant woman, to read omens in her entrails?
The first Soldier.
Ay, but I do not believe it. At any rate, I am sure ’twas not a Greek woman; it must have been a barbarian.