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“Immoral to a degree — and probably more than a degree —
they certainly were. But they had the satisfaction that their life
was the notorious life of Antioch,
delectably sensual, in absolute good taste. To give up all this, indeed, for what? His hot air about the false gods,
his boring self-advertisement,
his childish fear of the theatre,
his graceless prudery, his ridiculous beard.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

Julian and the Antiochians http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=107&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)

Life , God , Fear , Falseness

“The empire is delivered at last.
The vile, the appalling Julian
reigns no longer.”

Constantine P. Cavafy

A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen
Collected Poems (1992)