the Trinity as the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Mind or Father, and resting on the Word or Son, which was then the orthodox view of this mysterious doctrine.  On the other hand, the Jew quoted the Old Testament to show that the Lord their God was one Lord.  It is related that suddenly the Jews present were struck blind.  Their sight, however, was restored to them on the bishop’s praying for them; and they were then all thereby converted and baptised on the spot.  The king stood godfather to Herban, and rewarded him with a high office under his government.

[Illustration:  307.jpg PYRAMID OF MEDUM]

Esimaphasus did not long remain King of the Homeritae.  A rebellion soon broke out against him, and he was deposed.  Elesbaas, King of Auxum, again sent an army to recall the Homeritae to their obedience, but this time the army joined in the revolt; and Elesbae then made peace with the enemy, in hopes of thus gaining the advantages which he was unable to grasp by force of arms.  From a Greek inscription on a monument at Auxum we learn the name of AEizanas, another king of that country, who also called himself, either truly or boastfully, king of the opposite coast.  He set up the monument to record his victories over the Bougoto, a people who dwelt between Auxum and Egypt, and he styles himself the invincible Mars, king of kings, King of the Hexumito, of the Ethiopians, of the Saboans, and of the Homerito.  These kings of the Hexumito ornamented the city of Auxum with several beautiful and lofty obelisks, each made of a single block of granite like those in Egypt.

Egypt in its mismanaged state seemed to be of little value to the empire save as a means of enriching the prefect and the tax-gatherers; it yielded very little tribute to Constantinople beyond the supply of grain, and that by no means regularly.  To remedy these abuses Justinian made a new law for the government of the province, with a view of bringing about a thorough reform.  By this edict the districts of Menelaites and Mareotis, to the west of Alexandria, were separated from the rest of Egypt, and they were given to the prefect of Libya, whose seat of government was at Parotonium, because his province was too poor to pay the troops required to guard it.  The several governments of Upper Egypt, of Lower Egypt, of Alexandria, and of the troops were then given to one prefect.  The two cohorts, the Augustalian and the Ducal, into which the two Boman legions had gradually dwindled, were henceforth to be united under the name of the Augustalian Cohort, which was to contain six hundred men, who were to secure the obedience and put down any rebellion of the Egyptian and barbarian soldiers.  The somewhat high pay and privileges of this favoured troop were to be increased; and, to secure its loyalty and to keep out Egyptians, nobody was to be admitted into it till his fitness had been inquired into by the emperor’s examiners.  The first duty of the cohort was to collect the supply of grain for