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Updated: May 21, 2025
Think of Antisthenes and his disciples, the dog-like Cynics think of the fools shut up in the temple of Serapis! Nothing is beautiful but what is free, and he only is not free who is forever striving to check his inclinations for the most part in vain in order to live, as feeble cowards deem virtuously, justly and truthfully.
Foremost of them, with Theocritus, came the high-priest of Serapis, and Caracalla immediately desired them to introduce the newly appointed head-guardian of the peace. But the election was not yet final. The choice lay, Theocritus explained, between two equally good men.
Every city in the empire was justified in maintaining the purity of its ancient ceremonies; and the Roman senate, using the common privilege, sometimes interposed, to check this inundation of foreign rites. * The Egyptian superstition, of all the most contemptible and abject, was frequently prohibited: the temples of Serapis and Isis demolished, and their worshippers banished from Rome and Italy.
Jones put Lieutenant Lunt on our vessel that night, but the next day he removed all his wounded, and finally all his people, to the Serapis, and at ten the Poor Richard went to the bottom. I have always wondered that your Naval Commissioners never named another frigate for her. "And so, my dear boy, I will stop.
Is it a slander which need rouse you to such fury when a cautious old man says in all innocence of a young one a man belonging to a world which knows nothing of the mysterious sanctity of Serapis that he has taken a fancy to a girl, who is admired by all who see her, that he seeks her out, and gives her flowers " "Gives her flowers?" exclaimed Cleopatra, breaking out afresh.
The statues of the gods had, before Caesar's arrival, been placed on the pedestals erected for them to prevent any risk of a demonstration at the appearance of the deified emperors. The priests now first marched solemnly round these statues, and Timotheus poured a libation on the sand to Serapis, while the priest of Alexandria did the same to the tutelary hero of the town.
Serapis shall see which of us is his friend. "If all goes well, as I mean that it shall, I will appoint you Epitropon of the re-united kingdom that I swear to you by the souls of my deceased ancestors. I will speak with you to-day at any hour you may demand it." Eulaeus departed with a step as light as if his interview with the king had restored him to youth.
Without waiting for instructions, I gave the command: "Up royal yards! Royal yardmen in the tops!" We were already swaying out of the chains, when Lieutenant Dale appeared and asked the coasting pilot what fleet it was. He answered that it was the Baltic fleet, under convoy of the Countess of Scarborough, twenty guns, and the Serapis, forty-four. "Forty-four," repeated Mr.
Alexander could not do better than wear one, if only by such means he could escape Zminis and his men. But who were the women he was pursuing? Before Melissa could ask the question, Andreas pointed to the foremost boat, and said: "Those are Christian women, and the bark they are in belongs to Zeno, the brother of Seleukus and of the high-priest of Serapis. That is his landing-creek.
The indomitable spirit, the unconquerable courage of the commodore penetrated every soul, and every one who saw his example or heard his voice became as much a hero as himself!" Both vessels were at this time, and later, on fire in various places. Captain Pearson says in his official report that the Serapis was on fire no less than ten or twelve times.
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