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who immediately established it started to make a harvest of books for
the use of the members of the institution. This was frequented with great
expense as each book that has been assistant to the harvest forced to be
transcribed with a pen on parchment or papyrus with endless job and
care. You number Gran of clerks they continually had a job on this job
to the Museum. The kings that were interested more in to form this
library would grab the books that have been possessed by individual
studious, or that was deposited in the various cities of them
dominoes, and then, causing to the final drafts of them to be done by the
clerks of the Museum, they would hold back the originals for the great one
Library of Alexandrian, and it gives the copies to the men or the cities that
you/he/she had been stolen this way. In the same their way they would take in loan as them
calls him/it from all the travellers that visited Egypt some precious books,
what probable is that they has in their possession, and, holding back the originals,
give instead again them copies.
In process of time the library increased to four hundred thousand
volumes. There was anymore then some room in the buildings of the
Museum for further sums. There was however, in another part of the
city, a great called temple the Serapion. This temple was a lot a
magnificent building, or, rather, group of buildings, devoted to the god
Serapis. The origin and history of this temple were very extraordinary. The
legend was this:
It seems that one of the venerable old man and he/she long-revered of the of the
Egyptians were a called divinity Serapis. He had been, among other
divinity, the object of the Egyptian adoration grows old before Alexandria was
built or the Ptolemies reigned. There was also, from a curious
coincidence, a statue of the same name to a great city commercial call
Sinope that was built on the extremity of a promontory that
projected from Smaller Asia in the Euxine Sea. Sinope was, in some
feels, the Alexandria of the north, being the center and it makes to sit of a great