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Over the picture of this maid, set in front of the Dutch copy, stand these Latin verses: "Meursæ hæc quam cernis decies ter, sexque peregit, Annos, bis septem prorsus non viscitur annis Nec potat, sic sola sedet, sic pallida vitam Ducit, et exigui se oblectat floribus horti."
"But I should consider," said the nomarch of Emsuch, "that his promises to the people are the worst. Our income and that of the state will be shattered if the common people are idle one day in seven. But if the pharaoh gives them land in addition?" "He is ready to do that," said the chief judge in a whisper. "Is he ready?" asked the nomarch of Horti. "It seems to me that he merely wants money.
We must hasten to observe, however, that while the radical element may, on occasion, be identical with the word, it does not follow that it may always, or even customarily, be used as a word. Thus, the hort- "garden" of such Latin forms as hortus, horti, and horto is as much of an abstraction, though one yielding a more easily apprehended significance, than the -ing of singing.
"Hebron herself entices him," said the nomarch of Horti. "All women entice men," answered the nomarch of Emsuch. "Sense, however, is given a man to avoid sin." "But is not the pharaoh husband to all the women of Egypt?" whispered the nomarch of Abs. "Moreover, sin is under the judgment of the gods, while we are occupied only with Egypt."
"First of all," answered Mefres, "we can avoid an uprising if we explain to the wisest among common people that he who makes them promises is a maniac." "He is one of the soundest men under the sun," whispered the nomarch of Horti. "All that we need is to learn what he wishes." "He is a maniac! a maniac!" repeated Mefres. "His own brother imagines himself a monkey, and drinks with dissectors.
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