p.
397-416.

The old library of the Ptolemies was totally consumed in Caesar's Alexandrian war.

Marc Antony gave the whole collection of Pergamus (200,000 volumes) to Cleopatra, as the foundation of the new library of Alexandria.] [Footnote 42: Libanius (pro Templis, p.

21) indiscreetly provokes his Christian masters by this insulting remark.] At that time [43] the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, [44] the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.

His pious indignation was excited by the honors of Serapis; and the insults which he offered to an ancient temple of Bacchus, [4411] convinced the Pagans that he meditated a more important and dangerous enterprise.
In the tumultuous capital of Egypt, the slightest provocation was sufficient to inflame a civil war.