The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 110: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 8. ligent soul, and in true opinions of good and evil, and of what is beautiful and base. Whoever, therefore, thinks one thing, and teaches another to his followers, appears to be no less destitute of erudition than he is of virtue. Even in trifles, if the mind and tongue be at variance, there is some kind of improbity. But in affairs of the greatest consequence, if a man thinks one thing, and teaches another contrary to what he thinks, in what respect does this differ from the conduct of those mean-spirited, dishonest, and abandoned traders, who generally afirm what they know to be false, in order to deceive and inveigle cus- tomers? All, therefore, who profess to teach, ought to possess worthy manners, and should never enter- tain opinions opposite to those of the public; but such especially, I think, ought to be those who instruct youth, and explain to them the works of the ancients, whether they are orators or gram- marians; but particularly if they are sophists. For these last affect to be the teachers, not only of words, but of manners, and assert that political philosophy is their peculiar province. Whether, COLMIULE HOO) SS (CO mn