"In what garden, pray, does this blossom grow ?" "And how is it," added Cleopatra, "that my husband has not discovered it long since, and transplanted it to our palace." "Probably," answered Lysias, "because he who possesses Cleopatra, the fairest rose of Egypt, regards the violets by the roadside as too insignificant to be worth glancing at.

Besides, the hedge that fences round my bud grows in a gloomy spot; it is difficult of access and suspiciously watched.

To be brief: our Hebe is a water-bearer in the temple of Serapis, and her name is Irene.".