Ive always kinda liked poor Julian...
Doug
On 2011-04-24, at 3:27 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> It was allegedly the last oracle given at Delphi, to Julian the Apostate,
> a.d. 361. Swinburne used it as the epigraph to his once celebrated poem,
> which also includes a translation. The first stanza is below. I should have
> remembered that, so i had seen it before, but the time since I last read
> Swinburne is almost as far away as the Delphic Oracle :)
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