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Near Tarsus, June 26, 363, An Apostate's Death
"I despised all these statues of Antinous,
"the pretty boy-whore loved by Hadrian,
"who could not retrieve his soul from oblivion;
"which these marbles everywhere make obvious.
"But more I have depised the dead Galilean---
"too common to command and too plebeian
"to instruct the philosophic nobility:
"but to him I have lost the ultimate victory.
"Enjoy your triumph, you, the crucified;
"enjoy it with your so-called virgin mother;
"enjoy it with your followersm the trash
"of Rome, those wearers of sackcloth and ash.
"But I will always curse you (mark this well)
"in proud defiance, even in depths of Hell."
Starward
