38. I pass over the inspired, and our own denouncements, and the punishments that, according to us, are in store in the world to come: turn, pray, to thine own stories that are accepted, not by the poets only, but also by people who were philosophers; I mean thy Pyriphlegethons, Cocyti, and Acherons, wherewith they punish wickedness, Tantalus, Tityos, Ixion. Julian, your king of this fraternity, shall be reckoned amongst these----nay, at the head of them all, according to my calculation and definition----though he be not tormented with thirst whilst up to his chin in a lake; nor fearing (as Tragedy pleases) the rock overhanging his head, continually pushed away, continually rolling back; nor revolving along with the whizzing wheel; nor torn by vultures in his liver, never coming to an end, always renewed----whether all this be truth, or fable foreshowing the truth in fictions----but we shall see with what, and what sort of torture he will be punished, and how much more severely than all the rest----if, indeed, punishments and retributions be adjudged according to the measure of offences.

ΛΗʹ. Ἐῶ τὰ θεῖα καὶ τὰ ἡμέτερα, καὶ τὰς καθ' ἡμᾶς ἐκεῖθεν ἀποκειμένας μάστιγας: ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς σοὺς ἐλθὲ λόγους καὶ φόβους οὐ ποιηταῖς μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀνδράσι φιλοσόφοις ἀρέσκοντας, τοὺς Πυριφλεγέθοντάς σου, καὶ τοὺς Κωκυτοὺς, καὶ τοὺς Ἀχέροντας, οἷς ἀδικίαν κολάζουσι, Τάνταλος, Τιτυὸς, Ἰξίων. Ἰουλιανὸς ταύτης ὁ βασιλεὺς ὑμῶν τῆς φρατρίας, μετ' ἐκείνων ἀριθμηθήσεται, καὶ πρὸ ἐκείνων, κατά γε τὸν ἐμὸν λόγον καὶ ὅρον: οὐ δίψῃ κολαζόμενος ἐν λίμναις ἐπιγενείοις, ἢ κορυφῆς ὑπερτέλλοντα δειμαίνων πέτρον, ὡς τῇ τραγῳδίᾳ δοκεῖ, ἀεὶ μὲν ἀνωθούμενον, ἀεὶ δὲ κατασυρόμενον: οὐδὲ ῥοιζουμένῳ τροχῷ συγκυκλούμενος, οὐδὲ ὄρνισι τὸ ἧπαρ κειρόμενος, οὔποτε λεῖπον, ἀεὶ δὲ πληρούμενον: εἴτε ἀλήθεια ταῦτά ἐστιν, εἴτε μῦθος, παραδεικνὺς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐν τοῖς πλάσμασιν: ἀλλ' ὀψόμεθα τίσι καὶ οἵοις τηνικαῦτα κολαζόμενος, καὶ ὡς πολὺ τούτων χαλεπωτέροις, εἴπερ πρὸς μέτρον τῶν ἁμαρτανομένων αἱ τίσεις καὶ ἀντιδόσεις.