Note 262 — Chapter II · THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES (continued 2)
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Julian in his letters (Ep. 52) speaks of Alexandria even in his time as being given up to the worship of Serapis. It is probable that in this, as in other matters, the philosophic Emperor believed what he wished to believe. Yet his contemporary, Ammianus Marcellinus, Hist. Bk XXII. c. 16, § 20, speaks of the elements of the sacred rites being still preserved there in secret books, by which he seems to be referring to the worship of the Alexandrian divinities.