Cœlius
It is as though the azure sky were spread for them between those two columns.
Silanus
The azure and the light seem happy only when environing youth and love.... But, to return to less dazzling images, better-suited to my head burdened with years, I observed that it must have been a sort of presentiment that urged us to speak, but a moment ago, of the Nazarene’s band, for it was that same band which delayed our guests....
Appius
Yes, imagine, when we approached the last cross-road down there, we found the whole country in a stir and the way blocked by a shouting, gesticulating throng, which was crowding round a blind man who saw!...
Verus
Yes, that is one of those phenomena which one meets with nowhere except in Judæa....
Cœlius
It was extraordinary!... The poor man, crushed against an old wall, rolled two drunk and virgin eyes, crying, “He is a prophet! He is a prophet! I see men as trees, walking!” And the crowd stamped all around for joy. He seemed dazed with the light....