"Do according to that thy master telleth thee. How excellent [to a man]
is the teaching of his father, out of whom he hath come, out of his
very body, and who spake unto him while he was yet altogether in his
loins! Greater is what hath been done unto him than what hath been said
unto him. Behold, a good son that God giveth doeth beyond what he is
told for his master; he doeth right, doing heartily [?] in his goings
even as thou hast come unto me, that thy body may be sound, that the
King may be well pleased with all that is done, that thou mayest spend
years of life. It is no small thing that I have done on earth; I have
spent 110 years[311] of life while the King gave me praises as among the
ancestors, by my doing uprightly to the King until the state of
Amakh.[312]"
_This is its arrival
like that which was found in the writing._
Translation of F. Ll. Griffith.
[Illustration: _GREEK UNCIAL WRITING._
Letter of Dioscorides to Dorian, from a Manuscript on papyrus,
found in a sealed clay vessel in an Egyptian tomb. Written in
the IIIrd century B.C.]
[The following extracts are reproduced from the German of
Professor Erman's translation.]