Lives of Alcyone

Chart XLVII b
South India (Birth of Mizar) A.D.222
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the other victors, but the manuscript of his book was put upon the elevated seat in his place. When however the successful composition came
to be read in public, it was so emphatically the best that it took the popular fancy by storm and in spite of his caste he was called by acclamation
to occupy the seat which his work had earned. Much interested by all this, Mizar made friends with the poet, saw a good deal of him
and kept up a correspondence with him after his return to Mylapore.
Mizar was distinctly an able young man and distinguished himself at the Madura University--so much so indeed, that King Ugraperuvalathi
offered him the opportunity of entering his service and of residing permanently in the Pandya Kingdom, instead of returning to his own country.
He was wise enough to decline this dangerous honour, and indeed he lost nothing by doing so; for when his own King, Chenkddeva, heard
of it, he at once offered him an equivalent position in his own court, which Mizar promptly accepted. He had a keen delight in the exercise
of diplomacy and even when quite young he had developed, to a high degree, the art of persuading and managing people, so that he was
useful in politics, though he was much disgusted with some of the political methods which he encountered. His father, Lentulus, took eager
interest in all this work, though he himself, being of foreign birth and besides fully occupied with the business which he had taken up, bore no
direct part in it, but only advised and guided his son..
Beofre he was thirty years of age, Mizar had already been sent on several important missions to arrange delicate matters with neighbouring
monarchs, and in all these cases he was able to carry through his negotiations with success. About this time, he married the daughter of a high
official, and this further established the position which he had already gained through his own cleverness and through the wealth of his fat-
her. On the occasion of his marriage his father bought for him, as a wedding present, a large and beautifully situated estate, and the King presently
gave him a title of nobility in acknowledgement of the services rendered. Thus he was actually the founder of what afterwards became
one of the great families of the country. On the whole his career was smooth and fortunate. His rapid advance brought upon him a certain amount
of envy and jealousy, but his adaptability seems to have enabled him presently to disarm all those who had at first looked askance at
his progress.
When his father Lentulus died, he was accorded a public funeral just as though he had been a noble of the country. Mizar still just as though
he had been a noble of the country. Mizar still nominally carried on the business, but had in reality nothing to do with it as his time was entirely
taken up with the work of his political office. He was fortunate enough, however, to have a very capable manager in the son of one of he
colony of Roman merchants, among whom his father had originally settled. He left the commercial part of his affairs entirely in the hands of
this man, and eventually took him into partnership.
Mizar was a man of cheery disposition--not especially religious in type, although he gave liberally to various temples and considered religion
an important factor in the well being of the State. A detailed history of the latter part of his life would be simply a record of the various operations
in which he was engaged and the various posts which he held, which would be scarcely helpful for our purpose. Let it suffice to say,
that though his career was so successful, he made wonderfully few enemies, and that the experience in dealing with men, which this life gave
him, was distinctly valuable as preparing him for the part which he will have to play in future history. He died, much respected and lamented,
in the year 293, at the age of seventy one.
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Math -Kamu
Mizar -Dome Diana -Oak
Judex -Tulsi
Beatus -Sylla
Ivy -Kratos Gluck -Forma Telema -Rector Kamu -Math
Oak -Diana
Soma -Echo
Dido -Boreas
Madhu -Onyx
Trefoil -Rama Dome -Mizar
Thor -Kudos Sylla -Beatus
Echo -Soma Tulsi -Judex
Flos
Boreas -Dido
Onyx -Madhu