be my duty to mete out the same measure to all veterans alike,
whether officials, warriors or instructors."

The Alexandrians themselves detained him too by a succession of new acts
of homage. They raised him to the rank of a divinity, dedicated a temple
to him, and instituted a series of new festivals in his honor; partly
no doubt to win his partiality for their city and to express their
pride and satisfaction in his long stay there, but also because the
pleasure-loving community was glad to seize this opportunity as a
favorable one for gratifying their own inclinations and revelling in
mere unusual enjoyment. Thus the Imperial visit swallowed up millions,
and Hadrian, who enquired into every detail and contrived to obtain
information as to the sums expended by the city, blamed the recklessness
of his lavish entertainers. He wrote afterwards to his brother-in-law,
Servianus, his fullest recognition of both the wealth and the industry
of Alexandrians, saying, with terms of praise, that among them not one
was idle. One made glass, another papyrus, another linen; and each of
these restless mortals, said he, is busied in some handiwork. Even
the lame, the blind and the maimed here sought and found employment.
Nevertheless he calls the Alexandrians a contumacious and
good-for-nothing community, with sharp and evil tongues that had spared
neither Verus nor Antinous. Jews, Christians, and the votaries of
Serapis, he adds in the same letter, serve but one God instead of the
divinities of Olympus, and when he asserts of the Christians that they
even worshipped Serapis he means to say that they were persuaded of
the doctrine of the survival of the soul after death. The dispute as to
which temple should be assigned as the residence of the newly-found Apis
gave Hadrian much to do. From time immemorial this sacred bull had been
kept in the temple of Ptah at Memphis, but this venerable city of the
Pyramids had been outstripped by Alexandria, and the temple of Serapis
outvied that at Memphis in the province of Sokari, tenfold in size and
in magnificence. The Egyptians of Alexandria, who dwelt in the quarter
called Rhakotis, close to the Serapeum, desired to have the incarnation
of the god in the form of a bull, in their midst; but the Memphites
would not abandon their old prescriptive rights, and the Emperor
had found it far from easy to guide the contest, which proved a very
exciting one to all parties, to a satisfactory issue. Memph