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Updated: May 2, 2025
There was an abundance, unheard of for those times, of objects of luxury rugs, glass, stuffs, papyruses, jewels, artistic pottery because they made all these things at Alexandria.
"I was commanded to find the most guilty, hence I have summoned those whom I have found so; but it is not in my power to return them liberty." "Why?" "Look, most worthy, on that box. It is full of papyruses on which are written the details of the case. A judge in Memphis receives a report on the progress of the case daily, and reports to his holiness.
What do the other priests say to this?" "Perhaps in our sacred papyruses there is mention that in old times there were prophets among us who had the gift of suspending themselves in the air; so the desires of Mefres do not astonish priests nowadays.
The scribes fell on their faces, gathered up their papyruses quickly, and bore them away in a twinkle. The prince summoned the nomarch. He came with crossed hands, but with a calm face, for he had learned from the scribes that the viceroy could understand nothing from reports, and that he did not give ear to them. "Tell me, worthiness," began the heir, "do they read reports to thee?" "Every day."
Thou art groping among papyruses, but I have served seven years in the army, and there was almost no day which I did not pass in drill or maneuvers. How couldst Thou have an army of half a million in the course of a few months?" "All the nobility would rise." "What is thy nobility? Nobility is not an army.
He visited Edfu, whose temple had pylons a hundred and fifty feet high, and which possessed an immense library of papyruses, and on the walls of which were written and depicted, as it were, an encyclopedia of the geography, astronomy, and theology of that period.
But if instead of fighting he had waited for the aid of your God, long ago would the Egyptians have been moving along the Nile, each of them bearing a brick and a bucket, while the vile Hittites would be masters going around with clubs and papyruses. "Therefore, Sarah, thy charms will scatter my sorrows sooner than thy song.
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