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On the helmsman answering, 'in Phanes' service, the royal boat passed on slowly. Remember, Psamtik has promised us fifty gold rings if we bring the Athenian to Sais dead or alive. This is the report of Sebek, who has been in your service seven years, O Phanes." To both these accounts Phanes listened calmly. Rhodopis trembled.

They are so sweet; and our little blind Helios stroked my hair because I was to go away, here just here he stroked it" and he put his hand on a perfectly bald place "and now Sebek must go and never see them all again, just as if they were all dead." And the words rolled out and with difficulty, as if carried on in the flood of his tears.

His mother at once observed the terrible change that came over her son's face when Paula declared that a man had fled towards the dwelling-rooms; but she accounted for it in her own way, and exclaimed in genuine alarm: "Towards the Nile-wing, the rooms where your father sleeps? Merciful Heaven! suppose they have planned an attack there! Run fly, Sebek. "Go across with some armed men!

I was on the point of returning to relate what I had seen, when the boatman Sebek swam up once more and told as follows: The Egyptians had caused a leak to be made in Phanes' boat, and at a short distance from land it had filled and began to sink.

Yesterday I told you that henceforth we shall attract greater attention than hitherto, and really if we appear with that black scarecrow at our heels in the streets or elsewhere " "Certainly we cannot make much show Sebek," interrupted Arsinoe, "but we can leave him at home for the future." "Child, child!" exclaimed Keraunus reproachfully, "will you never remember who and what we are.

The above translations are taken, slightly modified, from those in The Oxyrrhynchus Papyri, vol. i. The next specimen, a quaint letter, is translated from the text in Mr. I have been maltreated by Peadius the priest of the temple of Sebek in Crocodilopolis.

He there found Sebek the steward waiting for his young master: "My lord is asleep now," he whispered, "as the physician foretold, but his face.... Oh, if only we had Philippus here again!" "Have you sent the chariot with the fast horses to the Convent of St.

Wait! of course you must tell the messenger that I am coming at once have the four new Pannonians harnessed to the silver-plated chariot. I must go to my mother; but there is time enough for that. Desire Sebek to have the guest-chambers prepared for distinguished guests those sick people are out of them, thank God! Take my present room for them too; I will go back to the old one.

No less a personage than the Patriarch had arrived on a visit, and was now in conference with Neforis. Sebek, the steward, informed Orion that he had asked for him, and that his mother wished that he should immediately join them and pay his respects to the very reverend Father. "She wished it?" asked the young man, as he tossed his riding-hat to a slave, and he stood hesitating.

Have you been beaten?" The negro shook his head and answered, whimpering: "Keraunus is going to sell me." "There are better masters than he." "But Sebek is old, Sebek is weak he can no longer lift and pull, and with hard work he will certainly die." "Has life been so easy and comfortable then at the steward's?" "Very little wine, very little meat, very much hunger," said the old man.