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even if he did not unfortunately always carry them out unless under
pressure, has been often shown. It is also not unknown, on this plane,
that one should not be dictated for once by profit motives or reasons
of advantage. And of this we have had assurances from our own experiences.
There is yet another possible explanation, and this might combine
well with the role of the patronage of Zeno? The youthful Pyrrhus was
in the Alexandrian palaestra undergoing education for whatsoever
branch - a matter which owing to the close connection of the gymnasia
with the army does not make any difference - either for a military
career or a political one in direct, or indirect connection with the State
service. The clear indication of the connection of lectures "regarding
letters and lessons" makes the supposition more probable. Thus this
palaestra might be compared to the Cavalry Academy in which scientific
lessons accompanied the riding exercises. The strictly centrally administered
and totalitarian form of government of the Kingdom of the Ptolemies
gives grounds for such a directed form to be considered more
necessary than as unsusual. Thus, all the more so, the services of Zeno
would be worthy of a crown: personal sacrifice, the offer of personal
means for a victory for the honour of the overlord and service to the
State, which was identified with the King.
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