If you disdain my guidance, honoured hero, at least accept that of some genuine Alexandrian.

Then you will understand Proclus's apt simile.

You ought to begin with the royal palaces in the Brucheium." "No, no-with the harbour of Eunostus!" interrupted the grammateus.
"With the Soma!" cried the young hipparch, while Daphne wished to have the tour begin in the Paneum gardens.
"They were already laid out when we left Alexandria," said Thyone.
"And they have grown marvellously, as if creative Nature had doubled her powers in their behalf," Hermon added eagerly.

"But man has also wrought amazing miracles here.

Industrious hands reared an actual mountain.