Capitolo 30
this celebrated dynasty, and reflecting, as him law, that the account
present, on the whole one an equitable and honest exposure of the general
the men's character from who, in the ancient durations the world was governed.
I CAPITULATE III.
ALEXANDRIA.
Inside administration of the Ptolemies.--The people's industry.--His/her
happy effects.--I idle about the parent of vice.--An inactive aristocracy
generally vicious.--Degradation and vice.--I work a care for
both.--The greatness in Alexandria.--Situation of his I bring.--You negotiate to the wholesale one and
barns.--Business of the I bring.--Scenes inside the city.--The natives
protected in their industry.--Public buildings.--The light-house.--Fame
of the light-house.--His/her evident position.--Way of turn on the
tower.--Modern method--The architect of the Pharos.--His/her clever
stratagem.--Ruins of the Pharos.--The library of Alexandrian.--Immense
magnitude of the library.--The Serapion.--The Serapis of Egypt.--The
Serapis of Greece.--The dream of Ptolemy.--Importance of the
statue.--The proposal of Ptolemy to the King of Sinope.--His/her last
success.--Way of get books.--The Sacred writings Hebrews.--Isolation of
the Hebrews.--Interest felt in their Sacred writings.--Jewish slaves in
Egypt.--The sketches of Ptolemy.--Ptolemy frees the slaves.--Their ransom
paid.--The success of Ptolemy.--The Septuagint.--First copies of the
Septuagint.--Copies of present.--Launchings other plans of the
Ptolemies.--He/she wants to say of money of raising.--Heavy taxes.--Poverty of the
people.--Ancient and modern capitals.--Liberality of the
Ptolemies.--The shine and the renown in Alexandria.--His great competitor.
You/he/she must not be imagine from the reader that the scenes of vicious
indulgence and the unwise cruelty and it incriminates with which was exhibited
so terrible frequency, and it brought to such enormous excess in the
buildings of the Egyptian kings, prevailed to the same extension in everything
the mass of the community during the period of their kingdom. The inside