Pharaoh has also heard your words regarding the unaccompanied admission of females to this sacred space of the Serapeum, and in his divine wisdom refuses this argument, for women must be instructed by the more developed minds of men to ensure they do not wrongly interpret the riches that the Library offers. For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it. Pharaoh and the gods will grant eternal favor and protection to this great work. A handwritten annotation to the letter, in the hand of Callimachus. His divine wisdom can kiss my common arse. We blind and hobble half of the
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