White, Joseph; White, Joseph [Hrsg.]: Aegyptiaca, or observations on certain antiquities of Egypt (Band 1): The history of Pompey's pillar elucidated (Oxford, 1801)

PREFACE.

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to what country would its pofTeffors refign it more
gladly, than to that, whofe People are the champions
of the oppreffed, and whofe King is the proteCtor of
the weak ? Or, if left to Hand on its ancient balls, why
fhould it not be dedicated by their willing gratitude as
a memorial to future ages, and bear on its lofty fummit
another Sovereign, the Deliverer m, in the view of
that fea, where his victorious arms avenged them of
their enemies n ?

m The firft Ptolemy was furnamed Soter, or the Deliverer, by the
Rhodians, on account of the important fuccours he afforded them againft
their enemies. This is intimated by Paufanias, in his ’A-i-rixa, edit. Kuhn.

p. 20.-Ta 9’tarja <5e o icaXaitiv tiidov, xvigtxi/Tt; t»k ttpeix (3xci\tuv tla'iv Ai-

•yutrTiav. 'Ovofj-XTX fti/ Jri Jtura tx xutx JJtoXs^xioi tripi<riv, aXXw itt £7ri>cA»ia'»{ «XXw’
y.a\ yx(> <Pi\ofxvTo^x aaXam, >cai <frt\xthhtpov trtgov, tov it th Aaya, SflTHPA, nrx^x-
iot/Ttav Ptailuv to ovo[jox.

““We found means to get ourfelves hoifted up, by flings and ropes, to
“ that Column, the moft coloffal in the known world. From the top of
t£ its capital we difcovered, to the fouth, the Site of the lake Mareotis, at
“ prefent covered by the fands of Libya ; on the other fide the ruins of
“ the whole extent of the city of the Arabs, and of the vaft fea, of which

“ OUR. ENEMIES HAD MADE THEMSELVES MASTERS.” NoRRy’s Ac-
count of the French Expedition to Egypt, p. 29.