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At the third hour after sunrise a distinguished asse place east of the Tereat harbour of Alexandria

Its ed to the upper classes, for es and litters, and nu in delicately woven baskets and cornucopias a laurel wreath, a papyrus crown, or bright-hued flowers

The athered on the western side of the great sanctuary, between the cella and the long row of Doric columns which supported the roof of the marble temple

The Macedonian Council of the city was already represented by several of itstheir nuht and comfortable portliness, from whose well-formed, beardless face looked forth a pair of shrewd eyes, and whose quick ht irritability of his temperament

Several members of the Council and wealthy raovernment officials and representatives of the priesthood, and then with Archias The head of the Museuh priest," had also appeared there with several members of this famous centre of the intellectual life of the capital They shared the shade of this part of the te, architecture and poetry, and conversed together with the graceful aniifts

Auage, a nureat Jewish coerly with the philosopher Hegesias and the Rhodian leech Chrysippus; Queen Arsinoe's favourite, whoation she had sent with Proclus to receive the returning traveller

Soazed toward the mouth of the harbour, where the expected ship must soon pass the recently cohthouse, still shining in its e platform in front of the Te fro place

Beneath the bronze statues of the Dioscuri, at the right and left of the topures of the Phebi and the younger arlands on their curling locks, as well as er artists and pupils of the older oddesses of the sea and their lofty pedestals, standing at the sides of the staircase, cast upon thesun, narrow shadohich attracted the arlands, had coreet the expected arrival with solemn chants