“His friends weren’t Christians; that much was certain.”

— Constantine P. Cavafy

Julian Seeing Contempt http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=108&cat=1 Collected Poems (1992) Context: His friends weren’t Christians; that much was certain. But even so they couldn’t play as he could (brought up a Christian) with a new religious system, ludicrous in both theory and application. They were, after all, Greeks. Nothing in excess, Augustus.

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