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

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iEGYPTIACA.

PART I.

her beloved Antony, except in the only repofitory then
exifting which was dignified by the appellation of a
Library ?

We are obliged by the exprefs teftimony of Strabo
to acknowledge, that the luftre of the Serapeum was
in his time fomewhat obfcured : but as he affigns the
reafon for this, namely a love of novelty then preva-
lent among the peoples, we may fuppofe that the neg-
lect did not continue long. The fame people, not many
years after this period, to demonftrate their returning
refpedf for their favourite deity Serapis, cruelly cele-
brated his anniverfary by the martyrdom of an Evange-
lift. It was at this feafon of general feftivity in Alexan-
dria1, that St. Mark expired in torments, under the
hands of a bigotted and fanguinary populace.

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fj.ii/a sra; Six rrjti tuv vauv xoojxcxiuyv tuv Iv NixottoXh’ xx'i yap dfotpiSidlgov xx\ rct-
Siov, xxi ol syiiiTiTn^ixo) dyuvc; txn irvvTiXuvJxi, TA AE I1AAAIA XIAimPHTAI,
Strabo, p. 1145.

1 Achilles Tatius, in his ’Ej&mxa, after giving a beautiful defcription of
Alexandria, reprefents Clitophon as having been prefent at one of thefe
fplendld feftivals. ’Hi/ Si zrug xx\ xxtx SxifJ-ovx ligofj.tivla, T« fxiyxXa S'Ea, ov Aia fj.iv
tfEAAni/£?, Xigamv SI xaXSiriv AlyuVnot* yv SI xx\ tuvoo; SxSa^ix’ xxl tsto fxiyifov
<rtx.fj.riv" itriri^x jj.iv ydg yv, xx\ o yXio; xxtiSvitc, xx'i i/u£ yv ooSxfjZ' dxXa xXXo; dvi-
tiXXiv nAio; xxTXxi^fj-XTi^uv. Toti yxg liSov nroXiv egi^ovcav nrig'i xaAAaj ovgxva.

Edit. Salmafii, p. 277.