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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt:... of Serapis was burnt in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, and again when it caronicon. was hi part destroyed by fire in the second year of this reign, we hear of no loss of books; and two hundred years later the library of the Serapium had risen to insert t. ne numher of seven hundred thousand volumes. Gmter, The temple-keeper to the great god Serapis, or one cccx1"-of the temple-keepers, at this time was Asclepiades, a noted boxer and wrestler, who had been made chief of the wrestling-ground, and had received the high rank of the emperor's freedman. He set up a statue to his father Demetrius, an equally noted boxer and wrestler, who had been chief priest of the wrestling-ground and of the emperor's baths in the last reign. Such was the strange union of Inacript. Gruter, cccxill. 8. offices and honours among the priests of Alexandria. Another favourite in the theatre was Apolaustus of Memphis, who removed to Eome, where he was crowned as conqueror in the games, and as a reward made priest to Apollo and emperor's freedman. (4) The city of Canopus was still a large mart for merchandise, as the shallow but safe entrance to its harbour made it a favourite with pilots of the small lib. xvti.'i. trading vessels, who rather dreaded the rocks at the inscript. ap. mouth of the harbour of Alexandria. A temple of Serapis which had lately been built at Canopus was dedicated to the god in the name of the Emperor Commodus; and there some of the grosser superstitions of the polytheists fled before the spread of Christianity and Platonism in Alexandria. The Canobic jars, which held those parts of Fig. 1U3. the body that could not be made solid in the mummy, and which had the heads of the four lesser gods of the dead on their lids, received their name...