It is settled--I play Peitho.
My companion Zoe may take the part of Artemis, and her grave sister that of Pallas Athene.

For the mother's part we have several matrons to choose from; the eldest daughter of Epitropes appears to me fitted for the part of Aphrodite; she is wonderfully lovely." "Is she stupid too ?" asked Euergetes.

"That is also an attribute of the ever-smiling Cypria." "Enough so, I think, for our purpose," laughed Cleopatra.

"But where are we to find such a Hebe as you have described, Lysias?
The daughter of Alimes the Arabarch is a charming child." "But she is brown, as brown as this excellent wine, and too thoroughly Egyptian," said the high-steward, who superintended the young Macedonian cup-bearers; he bowed deeply as he spoke, and modestly drew the queen's attention to his own daughter, a maiden of sixteen.

But Cleopatra objected, that she was much taller than herself, and that she would have to stand by the Hebe, and lay her hand on her arm.
Other maidens were rejected on various grounds, and Euergetes had already proposed to send off a carrier-pigeon to Alexandria to command that some fair Greek girl should be sent by an express quadriga to Memphis--where the dark Egyptian gods and men flourish, and are more numerous than the fair race of Greeks--when Lysias exclaimed: "I saw to-day the very girl we want, a Hebe that might have stepped out from the marble group at my father's, and have been endued with life and warmth and color by some god.