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The strongest prejudice was entertained against the character of an apostate, the enemy and successor of a prince who had engaged the affections of a very numerous sect; and the removal of St. Babylas excited an implacable opposition to the person of Julian.
"What the plague do you want? Have you no thought for the King's affairs? Babylas" this to his secretary "did I not tell you that I had much to do; that I must not be disturbed?"
Their testimony is a certain proof that the coming of the Messiah had not imposed a general silence on oracles. The Emperor Julian, called the Apostate, consulting the oracle of Apollo, in the suburbs of Antioch, the devil could make him no other answer, than that the body of St. Babylas, buried in the neighbourhood, imposed silence on him.
He remembered something the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business. Sharply he uttered his secretary's name. Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before. But there was no vestige of a smile on his drooping lips, no gleam of amusement in his patient eye.
This double resemblance was observable on the face of Babylas Latournelle. Above the atrocious green spectacles rose a bald crown, all the more crafty in expression because a wig, seemingly endowed with motion, let the white hairs show on all sides of it as it meandered crookedly across the forehead.
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