The prejudice wore quietly away.

But other things about the city she gathered quickly enough from the caustic explanations of Cleomenes.
"Here in Alexandria," he asserted on one occasion, "we are always ripe for a riot.

Never a chariot race without stone-throwing and throat-cutting after it.

An unpopular official is torn in pieces by a mob.

If you chance to kill a cat, the Egyptians are after you for your life.