s seen.'

The titles assumed by all the divine kings tell the story clearly.
Antiochus Epiphanes--'the god made manifest'; Ptolemaios Euergetes,
Ptolemaios Soter. Occasionally we have a Keraunos or a Nikator, a
'Thunderbolt' or a 'God of Mana', but mostly it is Soter, Euergetes and
Epiphanes, the Saviour, the Benefactor, the God made manifest, in
constant alternation. In the honorific inscriptions and in the writings
of the learned, philanthropy (+philanthropia+) is by far the most
prominent characteristic of the God upon earth. Was it that people
really felt that to save or benefit mankind was a more godlike thing
than to blast and destroy them? Philosophers have generally said that,
and the vulgar pretended to believe them. It was at least politic, when
ministering to the half-insane pride of one of these princes, to remind
him of his mercy rather than of his wrath.

Wendland in his brilliant book, _Hellenistisch-roemische Kultur_, calls
attention to an inscription of the year 196 B. C. in honour of the young
Ptolemaios Epiphanes, who was made manifest at the age of twelve
years.[156:1] It is a typical document of Graeco-Egyptian king-worship:

'In the reign of the young king by inheritance from his
Father, Lord of the Diadems, great in glory, pacificator of
Egypt and pious towards the gods, superior over his
adversaries, Restorer of the life of man, Lord of the Periods
of Thirty Years, like Hephaistos the Great, King like the Sun,
the Great King of the Upper and Lower Lands; offspring of the
Gods of the Love of the Father, whom Hephaistos has approved,
to whom the Sun has given Victory; living image of Zeus; Son
of the Sun, Ptolemaios the ever-living, beloved by Phtha; in
the ninth year of Aetos son of Aetos, Priest of Alexander and
the Gods Saviours and the Gods Brethren and the Gods
Benefactors and the Gods of the Love of the Father and the
God Manifest for whom thanks be given:'

The Priests who came to his coronation ceremony at Memphis proclaim:

'Seeing that King Ptolemaios ever-living, beloved of Phtha,
God Manifest for whom Thanks be given, born of King Ptolemaios
and Queen Arsinoe, the Gods of the Love of the Father, has
done many benefactions to the Temples and those in them and
all those beneath his rule, being from the beginning God born
of God and Goddess, like Horus son of Isis and Osiris, who
came