The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 57: what you’re looking at

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34 THE EMPEROR $ULIAN'S ARGUMENTS Plato, Socrates, Aristides, Cimon, Thales, Lycur- gus, Agesilaus, Archidamus; or rather the race of philosophers, generals, artificers, legislators. For the most depraved and execrable generals will be found to have used the greatest offenders more equitably than Moses did those who had committed no offence. What kingdom, therefore, shall I mention? Shall I speak of that of Perseus, or of AZacus, or of Minos the Cretan, who having purified the sea from pirates, and expelled and put to flight the Barbarians, to Syria and Sicily, and thus extended the bounds of his empire, obtained dominion not only over islands, but also over the maritime coast. Sharing, likewise, with his brother Rhadamanthus, not the lands he had con- quered, but attention to the welfare of mankind. And he, indeed, established laws which he received from Jupiter, who ordered Rhadamanthus to exer- cise the judicial province. | But Fesus, who made converts of the worst part of you, has been celebrated by you for little more than three hundred years: and performed during the whole time that he lived no deed which deserves Y Scomre sooks,.c® mn