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Hence to congratulate him came the high priests of temples , ministers , ambassadors , Phœnician , Greek , Hebrew , Assyrian , Nubian , men whose dresses even he could not remember . Next came the chiefs of neighboring provinces , judges , secretaries , the higher officers of the army corps in Memphis , and landowners . These people desired nothing , they simply expressed their delight at honor shown him . But the prince , while listening to these persons from morning till midday and from midday till evening , felt confusion in his head , and a quivering in all his members . After these came representatives of the lower classes with gifts : merchants bringing gold , foreign stuffs , amber , fruits , and perfumes . Then bankers and men who loaned money for interest . Further , architects with plans for new buildings , sculptors with projects for statues and carvings in relief , masons , potters , makers of ordinary and ornamental furniture , blacksmiths , founders , tanners , wine-merchants , weavers , even dissectors who opened the bodies of the departed .