Note 212 — Chapter XII · EGYPT.

Alexandrian science, too, protested in the sense of the king against this proposition (Plutarch, de fort. Alex. i. 6); Eratosthenes designated civilisation as not peculiar to the Hellenes alone, and not to be denied to all barbarians, e.g. not to the Indians, the Arians, the Romans, the Carthaginians; men were rather to be divided into “good” and “bad” (Strabo, i. fin. p. 66). But of this theory no practical application was made to the Egyptian race even under the Lagids.