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At table Philometor promised to take up the cause of Philotas and his wife, both of whom he had known, and whose fate had much grieved him; still he begged his wife and the Roman not to bring Eulaeus to justice till Euergetes should have left Memphis, for, during his brother's presence, beset as he was with difficulties, he could not spare him; and if he might judge of Publius by himself he cared far more to reinstate the innocent in their rights, and to release them from their miserable lot a lot of which he had only learned the full horrors quite recently from his tutor Agatharchides than to drag a wretch before the judges to-morrow or the day after, who was unworthy of his anger, and who at any rate should not escape punishment.
The Corinthian looked for a moment into his cup, moving it slowly about on the marble slab of the little table at his side, between an oyster pasty and a dish of fresh asparagus; and then he said, glancing round to win the suffrages of the company: "At the great procession which took place under Ptolemy Philadelphus Agatharchides gave me the description of it, written by the eye-witness Kallixenus, to read only yesterday all kinds of scenes from the lives of the gods were represented before the people.
"But even the small number of friends I had invited must have seemed too large to my brother Euergetes, for he who is accustomed to command in other folks' houses as he does in his own forbid the chamberlain to invite our learned friends among whom Agatharchides, my brothers' and my own most worthy tutor, is known to you as well as our Jewish friends who were present yesterday at our table, and whom I had set down on my list.
On the N.W. is a large obscure ring and a wide shallow valley bordered by ridges. AGATHARCHIDES. A very irregular complex ring-plain, about 28 miles in diameter, forming part of the N.W. side of the Mare Humorum. It must be observed under many phases before one can clearly comprehend its distinctive features.
Do you remember how we used to read the great tragedians and Plato together?" "And how you would often interrupt our tutor Agatharchides in his lectures on geography, to point out some mistake! Did you prosecute those studies in Cyrene?" "Of course. It really is a pity, Cleopatra, that we should no longer live together as we did formerly.
During these travels Burton and Drake made some valuable discoveries and saw many extraordinary peoples, though none more extraordinary than the lazy and filthy Troglodytes of the Hauran, who shared the pre-historic caves with their cows and sheep, and fed on mallows just as their forefathers are represented as having done in the vivid thirtieth chapter of Job, and in the pages of Agatharchides.
"But even the small number of friends I had invited must have seemed too large to my brother Euergetes, for he who is accustomed to command in other folks' houses as he does in his own forbid the chamberlain to invite our learned friends among whom Agatharchides, my brothers' and my own most worthy tutor, is known to you as well as our Jewish friends who were present yesterday at our table, and whom I had set down on my list.
However, I shall not think it too much for me to name Agatharchides, as having made mention of us Jews, though in way of derision at our simplicity, as he supposes it to be; for when he was discoursing of the affairs of Stratonice, "how she came out of Macedonia into Syria, and left her husband Demetrius, while yet Seleueus would not marry her as she expected, but during the time of his raising an army at Babylon, stirred up a sedition about Antioch; and how, after that, the king came back, and upon his taking of Antioch, she fled to Seleucia, and had it in her power to sail away immediately yet did she comply with a dream which forbade her so to do, and so was caught and put to death."
The Corinthian looked for a moment into his cup, moving it slowly about on the marble slab of the little table at his side, between an oyster pasty and a dish of fresh asparagus; and then he said, glancing round to win the suffrages of the company: "At the great procession which took place under Ptolemy Philadelphus Agatharchides gave me the description of it, written by the eye-witness Kallixenus, to read only yesterday all kinds of scenes from the lives of the gods were represented before the people.
These are included in a much wider and longer chasm, which, gradually diminishing in breadth, extends up to the N. wall of the latter. HIPPALUS. A partially ruined walled-plain, about 38 miles in diameter, on the W. side of the Mare Humorum, S. of Agatharchides.
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