"I aided him only as the drops in the stream help to turn the wheel of the mill.

As to his body, true, I marched at the head of the procession which bore it to Memphis and thence to Alexandria.

In the Soma I was permitted to think of him with devout reverence, and meantime I felt as if I had again seen him with these eyes--exactly as he looked in the Egyptian fishing village of Rhacotis, which he transformed into your magnificent Alexandria.

What a youth he was! Even what would have been a defect in others became a beauty in him.

The powerful neck which supported his divine head was a little crooked; but what grace it lent him when he turned kindly to any one! One scarcely noticed it, and yet it was like the bend of a petitioner, and gave the wish which he expressed resistless power.