Note 14I 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.
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