An Egyptian Princess

An Egyptian Princess

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Title: An Egyptian Princess, Complete
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AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS, Complete
By Georg Ebers

THE HISTORICAL ROMANCES OF GEORG EBERS
AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS
Translated from the German by Eleanor Grove

PREFACE TO THE SECOND GERMAN EDITION
Aut prodesse volunt ant delectare poetae, Aut simul et jucunda et
idonea dicere vitae. Horat. De arte poetica v. 333.
It is now four years since this book first appeared before the public, and
I feel it my duty not to let a second edition go forth into the world
without a few words of accompaniment. It hardly seems necessary to
assure my readers that I have endeavored to earn for the following
pages the title of a "corrected edition." An author is the father of his
book, and what father could see his child preparing to set out on a new
and dangerous road, even if it were not for the first time, without
endeavoring to supply him with every good that it lay in his power to
bestow, and to free him from every fault or infirmity on which the
world could look unfavorably? The assurance therefore that I have
repeatedly bestowed the greatest possible care on the correction of my
Egyptian Princess seems to me superfluous, but at the same time I think
it advisable to mention briefly where and in what manner I have found
it necessary to make these emendations. The notes have been revised,
altered, and enriched with all those results of antiquarian research

(more especially in reference to the language and monuments of
ancient Egypt) which have come to our knowledge since the year 1864,
and which my limited space allowed me to lay before a general public.
On the alteration of the text itself I entered with caution, almost with
timidity; for during four years of constant effort as academical tutor,
investigator and writer in those severe regions of study which exclude
the free exercise of imagination, the poetical side of a man's nature may
forfeit much to the critical; and thus, by attempting to remodel my tale
entirely, I might have incurred the danger of removing it from the more
genial sphere of literary work to which it properly belongs. I have
therefore contented myself with a careful revision of the style, the
omission of lengthy passages which might have diminished the interest
of the story to general readers, the insertion of a few characteristic or
explanatory additions, and the alteration of the proper names. These
last I have written not in their Greek, but in their Latin forms, having
been assured by more than one fair reader that the names Ibykus and
Cyrus would have been greeted by them as old acquaintances, whereas
the "Ibykos" and "Kyros" of the first edition looked so strange and
learned, as to be quite discouraging. Where however the German k has
the same worth as the Roman c I have adopted it in preference. With
respect to the Egyptian names and those with which we have become
acquainted through the cuneiform inscriptions, I have chosen the forms
most adapted to our German modes of speech, and in the present
edition have placed those few explanations which seemed to me
indispensable to the right understanding of the text, at the foot of the
page,