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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1801 Excerpt: ... Hodie apud Serapæum, Ptolemæi Bibliothecæ cum "ipsis Hebraicis literis exhibentur""." Tertull. ApoL c. xviii. p. 18 a. Edit. Havercamp. m "Verborum istorum, Hodie apud Serapæum Ptolemæi Bibliotheca cum "ipfis Hebraicis literis exhibentur, hunc sensum esse puto: in Bibliotheca Pto"lemai, qua apud Serapaum est, ajservantur Scriptura Judaica ab Inter"pretibus lxxii. converse." Hodius, de Bibl. Text. Orig. p. 225. "Llterce pro Scriptis apud Ciceronem ad Att. Quod mds omnibus literis in Pompeiana laude "eJfet perstrictus; id est, meis omnibus Scriptis. Et Hebraica pro Judaids, ut Hebraa terra, pro "terrd Jfudaorum apud Taciturn." Ibid. a Whatever be the authority of Eutychius and Philastrius Brixiensis, it goes directly to the fame point. For, having both of them mentioned the making of the LXXII. Version at Alexandria, they add, that, when finished, it was reposited in the Serapean library. If then the buildings of the Serapeum were so far advanced in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus as to contain a library, which was but an ornamental part, such an adventitious ornament must surely have been posterior in date to the Temple, which was the original and chief object of the founder. It is however to be observed, that the library, designed by a Monarch so eminent for his love of magnificence0, and his eagerness in collecting booksp, could not have been a small and inconsiderable portion of the whole structure: it probably comprehended one side or more of those magnificent courts, which excited the admiration of Ammianus Marcellinus. We must therefore allow it to be highly probable, that the edifice in its utmost extent, if not originally planned, was at least finished by Ptolemy Philadelphus. "Libros in unum collectos, et annulo suo sig...