14. I cannot refrain from transcribing the emphatical words
of Julian: ****. Orat. v. p. 161. Julian likewise declares
his firm belief in the ancilia, the holy shields, which
dropped from heaven on the Quirinal hill; and pities the
strange blindness of the Christians, who preferred the cross
to these celestial trophies. Apud Cyril. 1. vi. p. 194.