So, for four centuries, since the reign of Ptolemy philadelphus, had priestesses of Ceres walked and called aloud their admonitions through this city; though of late years men had come to know that what the sacred basket held was a live snake, supposed to be the author of sin and death.
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His successor, Ptolemy philadelphus, restored to freedom 120,000 Jews who had been kept in slavery at the instance of Aristeus, one of his most intimate friends.
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The Corinthian looked for a moment into his cup, moving it slowly about on the marble slab of the little table at his side, between an oyster pasty and a dish of fresh asparagus; and then he said, glancing round to win the suffrages of the company: "At the great procession which took place under Ptolemy philadelphus-Agatharchides gave me the description of it, written by the eye-witness Kallixenus, to read only yesterday-all kinds of scenes from the lives of the gods were represented before the people.
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