through the necropolis
into Alexandria, crossed the Draco canal, and marched past the
unfinished Temple of Serapis through the Rhakotis. At the Canopic Way
they turned eastward and rushed through this main artery of traffic
till, in the Brucheium, they hastened in a northerly direction toward
the sea.

South of the Theatre of Dionysus they halted. One division turned toward
the market-place, another toward the royal palaces.

Until they reached the Brucheium the hordes, so eager for booty, had
refrained from plunder and pillage.

Their whole strength was to be reserved, as the examination proved, for
the attack upon the royal palaces. Several people who were thoroughly
familiar with Alexandria had acted as guides.

The instigator of the mutiny was said to be a Gallic captain who had
taken part in the surprise of Delphi, but, having ventured to punish
disobedient soldiers, he was killed. A bridge-builder from the ranks,
and his wife, who was not of Gallic blood, had taken his place.

This woman, a resolute and obstinate but rarely beautiful creature, when
the division that was to attack the royal palaces was marching past the
house which Hermon had occupied as the heir of Myrtilus, pressed forward
herself across the threshold, to order the mutineers who followed her to
destroy and steal whatever came in their way. The bridge-builder went to
the market-place, and in pillaging the wealthy merchants' houses
began with Archias's. Meanwhile it was set on fire and, with the large
warehouses adjoining it, was burned to the foundation walls.

But the robbers were to obtain no permanent success, either in the
market-place or in Myrtilus's house, which was diagonally opposite
to the palaestra; for General Satyrus, at the first tidings of their
approach, had collected all the troops at his disposal and the crews of
several war galleys, and imprisoned the division in the market-place
as though in a mouse-trap. The bands to which the woman belonged were
forced by the cavalry into the palaestra and the neighbouring Maander,
and kept there until Eumedes brought re-enforcements and compelled the
Gauls to surrender.

The King sent from Memphis the order to take the vanquished men to
the tongue of land where they now were, and could easily be imprisoned
between the sea and the Sebennytic inland lake. They were guilty of
death to the last man, and starvation was to perform the executioner's
office upon them.

He, Eumedes, the adm