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Karnis felt it as a great favor that his old friend, famous now for his learning the leader of his fellow-thinkers in the second city of the world, the high-priest of Serapis, to whose superior intellect he himself had bowed even in their student days should remember his insignificant person and allow him to give him the history of the vicissitudes which had reduced him the learned son of a wealthy house to the position of a wandering singer.

Karnis felt it as a great favor that his old friend, famous now for his learning the leader of his fellow-thinkers in the second city of the world, the high-priest of Serapis, to whose superior intellect he himself had bowed even in their student days should remember his insignificant person and allow him to give him the history of the vicissitudes which had reduced him the learned son of a wealthy house to the position of a wandering singer.

The first impulse in this direction was given him by the persecution on the part of the authorities to which, during his lifetime, many of his friends and fellow-thinkers were subjected. When he heard of any one being put in jail or deported for disseminating his writings, he was so disturbed about it that one was really sorry for him.

Karnis felt it as a great favor that his old friend, famous now for his learning the leader of his fellow-thinkers in the second city of the world, the high-priest of Serapis, to whose superior intellect he himself had bowed even in their student days should remember his insignificant person and allow him to give him the history of the vicissitudes which had reduced him the learned son of a wealthy house to the position of a wandering singer.