. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . ion. Novatians,Arians, Meletians — he is sick of them all! However,he admires the episcopacy, for the Christians createbishops, who depend on five or six personages, andit is his interest to gain over the latter in order tohave the rest on his side. Moreover, he has notfailed to furnish them with considerable sums. Buthe detests the fathers of the Council of Nicaea. Come,let us have a look at them. Antony follows him. And they are found on thesame floor under a terrace which commands
. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . ion. Novatians,Arians, Meletians — he is sick of them all! However,he admires the episcopacy, for the Christians createbishops, who depend on five or six personages, andit is his interest to gain over the latter in order tohave the rest on his side. Moreover, he has notfailed to furnish them with considerable sums. Buthe detests the fathers of the Council of Nicaea. Come,let us have a look at them. Antony follows him. And they are found on thesame floor under a terrace which commands a viewof a hippodrome full of people, and surmounted byporticoes wherein the rest of the crowd are walkingto and fro. In the centre of the course there is anarrow platform on which stands a miniature templeof Mercury, a statue of Constantine, and three bronzeserpents intertwined with each other; while at oneend there are three huge wooden eggs, and at theother seven dolphins with their tails in the air. Behind the Imperial pavilion, the prefects of thechambers, the lords of the household, and the Patri-. TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTONY 27 cians are placed at intervals as far as the first storyof a church, all whose windows are lined withwomen. At the right is the gallery of the Blue fac-tion, at the left that of the Green, while below thereis a picket of soldiers, and, on a level with the arena,a row of Corinthian pillars, forming the entrance tothe stalls. The races are about to begin; the horses fall intoline. Tall plumes fixed between their ears sway inthe wind like trees; and in their leaps they shakethe chariots in the form of shells, driven by coachmenwearing a kind of many-coloured cuirass with sleevesnarrow at the wrists and wide in the arms, withlegs uncovered, full beard, and hair shaven above theforehead after the fashion of the Huns. Antony is deafened by the murmuring of and below he perceives nothing but paintedfaces, motley garments, and plates of worked
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