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Updated: June 19, 2025
'But where is the archbishop's house? 'Close to the Serapeium. You cannot miss the place: four hundred columns of marble, now ruined by Christian persecutors, stand on an eminence 'But how far off? 'About three miles; near the gate of the Moon. 'Why, was not that the gate by which we entered the city on the other side? 'Exactly so; you will know your way back, having already traversed it.
And then she rose, and rousing herself for one great effort, calmly prepared a last oration, in which she intended to bid farewell for ever to Alexandria and to the schools. Philammon meanwhile was striding desperately up the main street which led towards the Serapeium. But he was not destined to arrive there as soon as he had hoped to do.
When shall we see such a concourse as that where it ought to be? Cyril made no answer; and Peter went on 'Where it ought to be, my father in front of your door at the Serapeium? 'The world, the flesh, and the devil know their own, Peter: and as long as they have their own to go to, we cannot expect them to come to us. 'But what if their own were taken out of the way?
Oh, miserable me! And the poor little fellow rushed back again, while Philammon, at his wits' end between dread and longing, started off, and ran the whole way home to the Serapeium, regardless of carriages, elephants, and foot-passengers; and having been knocked down by a surly porter, and left a piece of his sheepskin between the teeth of a spiteful camel-neither of which insults he had time to resent-arrived at the archbishop's house, found Peter the Reader, and tremblingly begged an audience from Cyril.
The fact that this divinity of the Nile found a residence in this region shows how intimate was the relation between Rome and Egypt in this ancient day. The Serapeium was built on the edge of the sea, just above its level.
"Is Pompeius not already here?" came back from the deck. And in a twinkling it was all over the city: in the Serapeium, in the Museum, under the colonnades, in the factories, in the palace. "Pompeius's army has been destroyed. The Magnus barely escaped with his life. Lucius Domitius is slain. Cæsar is master of the world!"
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