The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 103: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

80 THE EMPEROR JULIAN’S ARGUMENTS listen to my admonitions, you will by degrees re- turn to truth. You will not wander from the right path, if you will be guided by him, who, to the twentieth year of his age, pursued that road, but has now worshipped the gods for near twelve years. EXTRACTS FROM THE FRAGMENT OF AN ORATION OR EPISTLE ON THE DUTIES OF A PRIEST, Ir any are detected behaving disorderly to their prince, they are immediately punished; but those who refuse to approach the gods, are possessed by a tribe of evil daemons, who driving many of the atheists [i, e. of the Christians] to distraction, make them think death desirable, that they may fly up into heaven, after having forcibly dislodged their souls. Some of them prefer deserts to towns ; but man, being by nature a gentle and social GOnnic \ NOOO) SS (CO mn