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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358774" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On the Outskirts of Antioch</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We in Antioch were astonished when we heard<br>what Julian was up to now.<br> <br>Apollo had made things clear to him at Daphni:<br>he didn't want to give an oracle (as though we cared!),<br>he didn't intend to speak prophetically, unless<br>his temple at Daphni was purified first.<br>The nearby dead, he declared, got on his nerves.<br> <br>There are many tombs at Daphni.<br>One of those buried there<br>was the triumphant and holy martyr Vavylas,<br>wonder and glory of our church.<br> <br>It was him the false god hinted at, him he feared.<br>As long as he felt him near he didn't dare<br>pronounce his oracle: not a murmur.<br>(The false gods are terrified of our martyrs.)<br> <br>Unholy Julian got worked up,<br>lost his temper and shouted: &quot;Raise him, carry him out,<br>take him away immediately, this Vavylas.<br>You there, do you hear? He gets on Apollo's nerves.<br>Grab him, raise him at once,<br>dig him out, take him away, throw him out,<br>take him wherever you want. This isn't a joke.<br>Apollo said the temple has to be purified.&quot;<br> <br>We took it, the holy relic, and carried it elsewhere.<br>We took it, we carried it away in love and in honor.<br> <br>And hasn't the temple done brilliantly since!<br>In no time at all a colossal fire<br>broke out, a terrible fire,<br>and both the temple and Apollo burned to nothing.<br> <br>Ashes the idol: dirt to be swept away.<br> <br>Julian exploded, and he spread it around—<br>what else could he do?—that we, the Christians,<br>had set the fire. Let him say so.<br>It hasn't been proved. Let him say so.<br>The essential thing is—he exploded.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q>
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