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The Dove, by many nations, in their celebrations, was looked upon as a special emblem of peace and good-will. Theba, in Egypt, was originally one of the temples dedicated to the Ark. Both priests and sooth-sayers were styled Ionah or Doves. To Dodona, in Epirus, was brought this and the first Grecian oracle all the rites and history of the Thebans.

Heavily groaning, to her thus answer'd the rapid Achilleus: "Mother, already thou knowest, and why should it all be recounted? We in our progress assailing Aëtion's hallowèd city, Conquer'd and sack'd it, and hither conducted the plunder of Theba. Then when the sons of Achaia assembled to make the division, They to Atreides allotted for guerdon the comely Chrysëis.

They said that the Yafei might shoot us, though a cannon would be necessary, and lay the blame on the Fadhli, so they would by no means let us camp anywhere but in a most disgustingly dusty place next the village; and they kept sharp watch all night, talking much. The towers protect the approach to the Wadi Theba, which here goes up or comes down from Al Kara.

For those who suppose a bad cause for laudable works and commendable actions, endeavoring by calumnies to insinuate sinister suspicions of the actor when they cannot openly discommend the act, as they that impute the killing of Alexander the tyrant by Theba not to any magnanimity or hatred of vice, but to a certain feminine jealousy and passion, and those that say Cato slew himself for fear Caesar should put him to a more shameful death, such as these are manifestly in the highest degree envious and malicious.

On the 2nd of December, the anniversary of the coup d'etat, the Empire was declared in France, and Louis Napoleon entered Paris as Emperor on the following day. On the 22nd of January, 1853, the Emperor of the French made public his approaching marriage to the beautiful Eugenie de Montigo, Comtesse de Theba.