"Can it be that you were the son of that rich Herophilus, whose business in Antioch was conducted by the worthy Jew Urbib ?" "Yes indeed," replied Paulus, looking down at the ground in some confusion.

"Our mode of life was almost royal, and the multitude of our slaves quite sinful.

When I look back on all the vain trifles that my father had to care for, I feel quite giddy.

Twenty sea-going ships in the harbor of Eunostus, and eighty Nile-boats on Lake Mareotis belonged to him.

His profits on the manufacture of papyrus might have maintained a cityfull of poor.