The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 65: what you’re looking at

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42 THE EMPEROR FULIANS ARGUMENTS deeds and fraudulent machinations of the evan- gelists, But now answer me this question: Whether is it better to be perpetually free, and for two thousand entire years to have dominion over the greater part of the earth and sea, or to be in subjection, and live in obedience to the mandate of another? ‘There is no one so shame- less as to prefer the latter to the former. But who will fancy that it is worse to vanquish in battle, than to be vanquished? Is there any one so msensate? If these things, then, are true, show me one leader of an army among the Hebrews to be compared with Alexander or Ceesar. You have not one to show. Though, by the ~ gods, I well know that I injure these men by the comparison. But I mention these as being known. For there are leaders inferior to these, who are unknown to many, each of whom is more admi- rable than all taken collectively that ever were among the Hebrews. But the laws of a polity, the form of tribunals, the economy and beauty pertaining to cities, the increase of discipline, and the exercise of the liberal arts, were only to be seen among the COMME OOKS (CO