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AEGYPTIACA.
PART I.
If then the buildings of the Serapeum were fo far
advanced in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus as to
contain a library, which was but an ornamental part,
fuch an adventitious ornament mud: furely have been
pofterior in date to the Temple, which was the original
and chief object of the founder. It is however to be
obferved, that the library, defigned by a Monarch fo
eminent for his love of magnificence0, and his eager-
making of the LXXII. Verlion at Alexandria, they add, that, when fi-
niihed, it was repofited in the Serapean library.
jkJUa
“ Libros in unum colledtos, et annulo fuo fignatos in Templo Idoli,
“ Serapis didhi, repofuit [Ptol. Philadelphus].” Eutychii Annales,
tom. i. p. 296.
-“ Editionem—juffit confcribi [Ptolemaeus] atque poni in Tem-
“ plum, ut venientibus de Achaia, de Graecia, atque aliis provinciis philo-
“ fophis, poetis, et hiftoriographis cupientibus, legendi copia non negare-
“ tur.” Philastrius Brixiensis, Haeref. 90.
Epiphanius’s teftimony will be noticed hereafter.
0 Philadelphus, according to Appian,—xa) nrogio-ai ieworidlo; nv flourixiuv, xa)
Sanavncai Xa.fjt.Trgora.To;, xa) xaratrxsvatrai fiiyaXxgyoraro;. APPIAN. edit. Amftel.
Praef. vii.—And Philo Judaeus fpeaks fully to the fame purpofe :
nroXc^aTo; o <S>i\olieX<po; eTrtxXnSe);, [Autejo;] [alv nv art AXe^avSgz tz mi Aiyomov
nragaXa^ovTo;' agercu; Si rat; ev nyefaovla nravtojv, zyj. tuv xaQ aurov faovov, aWa. xa)
tuv zraXai sruiroTS yiyevnfi.il/uv ag\;o;, z >cai ft.t%gi vvv rotravra1; w;egov yeveat; dierat to
xXco;, zroXXa Helyfaara xa\ favny.e~a rn; foeyaXotpgotrvvn; xara ■aroXei; xa) •^uga;anroXiTrov-
to;, u; non xai ev zragoifata; eioei ra; worlgoyxx; tfnXoTifaia; xat p,eyaXa; xaTatrxewa;,
4>IAAAEAC>EI0T2 dor exeflz x»Xs7<r3’ai. Edit. Mangey, tom. ii. p. 138.
AEGYPTIACA.
PART I.
If then the buildings of the Serapeum were fo far
advanced in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus as to
contain a library, which was but an ornamental part,
fuch an adventitious ornament mud: furely have been
pofterior in date to the Temple, which was the original
and chief object of the founder. It is however to be
obferved, that the library, defigned by a Monarch fo
eminent for his love of magnificence0, and his eager-
making of the LXXII. Verlion at Alexandria, they add, that, when fi-
niihed, it was repofited in the Serapean library.
jkJUa
“ Libros in unum colledtos, et annulo fuo fignatos in Templo Idoli,
“ Serapis didhi, repofuit [Ptol. Philadelphus].” Eutychii Annales,
tom. i. p. 296.
-“ Editionem—juffit confcribi [Ptolemaeus] atque poni in Tem-
“ plum, ut venientibus de Achaia, de Graecia, atque aliis provinciis philo-
“ fophis, poetis, et hiftoriographis cupientibus, legendi copia non negare-
“ tur.” Philastrius Brixiensis, Haeref. 90.
Epiphanius’s teftimony will be noticed hereafter.
0 Philadelphus, according to Appian,—xa) nrogio-ai ieworidlo; nv flourixiuv, xa)
Sanavncai Xa.fjt.Trgora.To;, xa) xaratrxsvatrai fiiyaXxgyoraro;. APPIAN. edit. Amftel.
Praef. vii.—And Philo Judaeus fpeaks fully to the fame purpofe :
nroXc^aTo; o <S>i\olieX<po; eTrtxXnSe);, [Autejo;] [alv nv art AXe^avSgz tz mi Aiyomov
nragaXa^ovTo;' agercu; Si rat; ev nyefaovla nravtojv, zyj. tuv xaQ aurov faovov, aWa. xa)
tuv zraXai sruiroTS yiyevnfi.il/uv ag\;o;, z >cai ft.t%gi vvv rotravra1; w;egov yeveat; dierat to
xXco;, zroXXa Helyfaara xa\ favny.e~a rn; foeyaXotpgotrvvn; xara ■aroXei; xa) •^uga;anroXiTrov-
to;, u; non xai ev zragoifata; eioei ra; worlgoyxx; tfnXoTifaia; xat p,eyaXa; xaTatrxewa;,
4>IAAAEAC>EI0T2 dor exeflz x»Xs7<r3’ai. Edit. Mangey, tom. ii. p. 138.