iEGYPTIACA.

PART I.

3°

“ titude; FInfcription Grecque, a moitie effacee que Ton
“ y voit da cote de Foccident, lorfque le foleil Feclaire,
“ etoit fans doute lifible du terns d’Abulfeda, et confer-
“ voit le nom de Severe. Ce n’eft pas le feul monument
“ que la reconnoiffance des Alexandrins lui ait eleve.
“ On voit au milieu des ruines d’Antinoe, batie par
“ Adrien, une magnifique Colonne dont FInfcription,
“ encore fubfiftante, la dedie a Alexandre Severe.”
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A courteous reader might fuppofe that Monsieur
Savary had examined the original authors with cri-
tical accuracy, had fpent many a long and toilfome
night in exploring the inmofl: receffes of Oriental as
well as European literature, and was on terms of fa-
miliar intimacy with volumes almoft forgotten by the
learned themfelves, and utterly inacceffible to vulgar
fcholars. Even thofe who might fufpedt that fuch quo-
tations were borrowed, and who, upon confulting the
work of Michael is, would difcover whence they were
taken, might yet give Monfieur Savary credit at lead;
for having confulted the authorities referred to by the
learned Profeffor : and yet certain, moft certain it is,
that he could not polfibly have feen the patTage in Spar-
tianus ; fince the Severus fpoken of by that Hiftorian in
the chapter referred to, is not Alexander Severus, who
began his reign A. D. a2a. (and who moreover never