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sueli as we may hope for from the constantly increasing discoveries 

 of papyri of the Roman period, it seems rash to attempt to fix his 

 identity. That he was a military governor of high rank, and that he 

 concluded the first treaty between Muslims and Christians in Egypt, 

 with the concurrence of the patriarch Cyrus, is all that can be 

 affirmed with certainty. 



