Ere long--a few months only--the hosts will gather in the champaign country at the foot of Vesuvius, by land and by sea; Rome will open its gates wide to us who bring her back her old gods; the Senate will proclaim the emperor deposed and the Republic restored.

Theodosius will come out against us.

But the Idea for which we go forth to fight will hover before us, will stir the hearts of those soldiers and officers who would gladly--ah! how gladly-sacrifice to the Olympian gods and who only kiss the wounds of the crucified Jew under compulsion.

They will desert from the labarum, which Constantine carried to victory, to our standards; and those standards are all there, ready for use; they have been made in this city and are lying hidden in the house of Apollodorus.

Heaven-sent daemons showed them in a vision to my disciple Ammonius, when he was full of the divinity and lost in ecstasy, and I have had them made from his instructions." "And what do they represent ?" "The bust of Serapis with the 'modius' on his head.