The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 44: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. a1 For I say, that the one is in like manner fabu- lous with the other. But by the gods, why do you who admit the former, reject the fable of” Homer? For I thmk it is proper to be silent among ignorant men about this circumstance, that though all men in every part of the habitable globe should have one voice and one language, yet they would not be able to build a city which would reach to the heavens, though they should convert the whole earth into bricks. For an infinite num- ber of bricks of a magnitude equal to that of the earth, would be requisite to reach as far as the orb of the moon. For let it be supposed that all men assembled together, having one voice and one Janguage, and that the whole earth was converted into bricks and stones, when would they be able to reach as far as the heavens, though they were drawn out into an extension finer than a thread? Do you, therefore, think that this narration which is so obviously a fable is true? And can you en- tertain such an opimion of God, as that he was afraid of all mankind having the same language, and that on this account he confounded their speech? And farther still, do you dare to assert Gonnic HOO) SS (CO mn