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Apollonios had written to a certain Lysimachos, evidently a man of high rank, asking him to give his messengers some fruit trees for his or their plantations. As Lysimachos happened to have gone down to Alexandria, the letter was answered by his agent Nikias, who writes that he …
Νικίας Ἀπολλωνίωι χαίρειν. ἔγραψας Λυσιμάχωι περὶ φυτῶν ὅπως διου. Λυσίμαχος μὲν οὖν ἔτυχεν ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείαι ὤν, ἐγὼ δὲ τοῖς ἐλθοῦσιν περιαγαγὼν πάντας τοὺς παραδείσους ἔδειξα ὅτι παρʼ ἡμῖν μοσχεύματα οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδʼ εἴωθεν γίνεσθαι, οὐκ ἠγνοοῦσαν δὲ οὐδʼ αὐτοί, ἀλλὰ ἐξ Ἀρσινόης τῆ…
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