...is indeed miserably scanty — shows us this remarkable king turning from a successful warrior into a good-natured but lazy patron of politicians, of priests, and of pedants. His character is lost to us. As it appears through the mist, we seem to feel that it was rather his...

...is indeed miserably scanty — shows us this remarkable king turning from a successful warrior into a good-natured but lazy patron of politicians, of priests, and of pedants. His character is lost to us. As it appears through the mist, we seem to feel that it was rather his...

...is indeed miserably scanty — shows us this remarkable king turning from a successful warrior into a good-natured but lazy patron of politicians, of priests, and of pedants. His character is lost to us. As it appears through the mist, we seem to feel that it was rather his...

...such eclat, Survey iii. 49 ; and his predecessor, Euergetes, who degenerated in his old age into " a good-natured but lazy patron of politicians, of priests, and of pedants," with the " old and foolish king," Survey iii. 44. By Koheleth's time the young man, in his turn, could...

...his tall head gear, is of white marble. The description of this monarch is that he was transformed " from a successful warrior to a good-natured but lazy patron of politicians, priests, and pedants." The sculptor has caught the expression of such a personality, although the work...

...that "remarkable king" Ptolemy III, who, as Mahaffy puts it,* changed "from a successful warrior into a good-natured, but lazy, patron of politicians, of priests, and of pedants." — 6. This verse is treated as a gloss by some of the later critics, but that is because they have...