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ETA M ROrEcin Bariiv 
fiderable injury to the temples and inhabi- 
tants of Evypt, and by furrounding it with 
works of ftrength, and ditches and walls; 
and checking the rife of the Nile in his 
eighth year, which overflowed the plains, 
by conftruding dykes, expending on them 
no {mall fums, and employing both horfe 
and foot guards to keep them,. in a fhort 
time took the city by affault, and in it flew 
the rebels 3; as Hermes, and Orus, the fon of 
Ifis and Ofris, overcame thofe who in the 
fame place had formerly revolted; fo all 
thofe who led others to revolt from his fa- 
ther, and laid wafte the country, and defpoiled 
the temples, when he came to Memphis to 
alift his father, and his own kingdom, he 
punifhed according to their demerits; at 
which time he came to perform the accuf- 
tomed folemnities at receiving the crown: 
but forsave what was due from the temples 
to the royal treafury up to the eighth year, 
for corn and filver to a large amount; and 
likewife the impaofts for the byffus cloth 
not furnifhed to the royal treafury, and for 
taxes up to the fame time; he remitted alfo 
to the temples the artabe for every acre of 
facred land, and alfo the liquid meafure for 
that of the vineyards; and made many gifts 
to Apis and Mnevis, and. to the other facred 
animals in Egypt, he gave more than any of 
the kings his predecefiors, always cunfidering 
what was becoming; fupplying every thing 
neceflary for their funerals in a rich and 
magnificent manner, and celebrating the rites 
of each in their appropriate temples ; and all 
the ‘valuables in the temples and through” 
the country of Egypt he preferved, agreeably 
to the laws; apd enriched the Apeium with 
coftty works, contributing gold and filver, 
and precious ftones, to no fmall amount 5 
and erected temples, and fhrines, and altars 5 
repairing what was deficient, having the zeal 
of a beneficent Deity in his prefents5 and in- 
forming himfelf of the meft precious articles 
inthe tempies, renewed them in hisfown 
kingdom, as was becoming: for which the 
Gods gave him health, viétory, @rength,.and 
other Alejiags of a tafting reign to him and 
his poftersty for ever. 
With Good Fortune 
It has pleafed the pricits of all the Temples 
of the country to decree, that all thofe ho- 
pours which apperrain to the immovtal King 
Ptolomy, beloved. of Phtha, the God Epi- 
phanes, moft gracious, and thofe of his pa- 
rents the Gods Philopacores, and of his pre- 
deceficrs the Gods Euvergetes, and the...... 
Gods brothers, and tbe Gods Soteres, fhall 
be increafed; and that the image of the ever- 
living King Ptolomy, the God Epiphanes,. 
moft gracious, shall be fet up in every temple 
in the moff confpicucus piace, which thall be 
called ‘* the ftatue of Prolomy, the Defender 
of Egypt; and before it fhail be placed the 
principal divinity of the temple, reprefented 
giving him the attributes of vitory, which 
fhall be prepared in the accuflomed manner; 
and the priefts fhall perform their fervices 
before 
