When the evening
came, he repaired, weary but not despondent, to the earthly paradise
that he was determined to regain--to the temple where he had once
taught, and where he still imagined that he was again destined to
preside. Here he proceeded, ignorant of the new laws, careless of
discovery and danger, to ascertain by divination, as in the days of old,
whether failure or success awaited him ultimately in his great design.
Meanwhile the friends whose assistance Ulpius had determined to extort
were far from remaining inactive on their parts after the departure of
the aspiring priest. They remembered with terror that the laws affected
as severely those concealing their knowledge of a Pagan intrigue as
those actually engaged in directing a Pagan conspiracy; and their
anxiety for their personal safety overcoming every consideration of the
dues of honour or the claims of ancient friendship, they repaired in a
body to the Prefect of the city, and informed him, with all the
eagerness of apprehension, of the presence of Ulpius in Alexandria, and
of the culpability of the schemes that he had proposed.
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