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Updated: June 20, 2025
"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.
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.
Nay, Agatharchides of Cnidus, who wrote the acts of Alexander's successors, reproaches us with superstition, as if we, by it, had lost our liberty; where he says thus: "There is a nation called the nation of the Jews, who inhabit a city strong and great, named Jerusalem.
The most westerly of these furrows is interrupted by a crater on this wall, but reappears on the N. side of it, and, after making a detour towards the W. to avoid a little mountain in its path, runs partially round the E. flank of Hippalus A, and then, continuing its northerly course, terminates amid the mountains W. of Agatharchides.
These men took no care, but let it come into the hands of Ptolemy, as not willing to take arms, and thereby they submitted to be under a hard master, by reason of their unseasonable superstition." This is what Agatharchides relates of our nation.
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