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To: Red Badger

Touching and very sad. Not a native Egyptian but one of the descendants of Alexander’s army that conquered Egypt.

Love is so overrated... even 1800 years ago.


4 posted on 03/07/2014 12:09:26 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

I don’t think so. The article calls him an Egyptian soldier, but he wrote in Greek, and was serving in the Roman army. 1800 years ago woul put this letter around the year 214 AD, well into the Christian era. He was apparently Greek and serving overseas..................


6 posted on 03/07/2014 12:12:21 PM PST by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: goldstategop
Love is so overrated... even 1800 years ago.

Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.

21 posted on 03/07/2014 12:31:00 PM PST by BipolarBob
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