From him Miriam learnt much of their ancient civilisation, and even of the inner mysteries of the Egyptian religion, and of its high and secret interpretations which were known only to the priests.

The second, Theophilus by name, was a Greek who had visited Rome, and he taught her the tongues and literature of those countries.

The third, all his life long had studied beasts and birds and insects, and the workings of nature, and the stars and their movements, in which things he instructed her day by day, taking her abroad with him that examples of each of them might be before her eyes.
Lastly, when she grew older, there was a fourth master, who was an artist.

He taught Miriam how to model animals, and even men, in the clay of the Jordan, and how to carve them out in marble, and something of the use of pigments.

Also this man, who was very clever, had a knowledge of singing and instrumental music, which he imparted to her in her odd hours.