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Of the Name of Him Who Was Named the Learned Olympus, In the Tomb of the Harpers That Is By Tape; Of His Council to Cleopatra; Of the Message of Charmion; And of the Passing of Olympus Down to AlexandriaThese things then came to pass. For eighty days I was hidden of the old wife, Atoua, while the body of the Prince, my father, was made ready for burial by those skilled in the arts of embalming. And when at last all things were done in order, I crept from my hiding-place and made offerings to the spirit of my father, and placing lotus- flowers on his breast went thence sorrowing. And on the following day, from where I lay hid, I saw the Priests of the Temple of Osiris and of the holy shrine of Isis come forth, and in slow procession bear his painted coffin to the sacred lake and
