The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 56: what you’re looking at

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

AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 33 the most strenuous in battle, but far inferior in valour to the Egyptians and Greeks, and scarcely extended their empire to the boundaries of Judza. But God caused science, or the discipline of phi- losophers, to originate with us. For the theory about the phenomena was perfected by the Greeks, but first astronomical observations were made by the Barbarians in Babylon. The science of geometry, receiving its beginning from the mea- surement of the earth in Egypt, has arrived at its present magnitude. The theory of numbers, originating from Phoenician merchants, has at length acquired a scientific dignity among the Greeks, but the Greeks conjoining these three sciences together with music into one, combining astronomy with geometry, adapting numbers to both, and producing in these an har- monic elegance, thus formed their music, dis- covering the boundaries of harmonic ratios, and producing an irreprehensible consent, or in the highest degree approaching to it, with the audi- tory sense. Whether, therefore, is it requisite that I should severally name the studies, or the men? Such as D COIN G HOO) SS (CO mn