R. J. Cholmeley, M.A., The Idylls of Theocritus

[47] ἐξ ὧ ἐν ἀθανάτοις, 'since your father was deified.' Herondas (i. 26) speaks similarly of the prosperity of Egypt under the Ptolemies: “      τὰ γὰρ πάντα
ὅσ᾽ ἐστί κου καὶ γίνετ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ,
πλοῦτος παλαίστρη δύναμις εὐδίη δόξα
θεαὶ φιλόσοφοι χρυσίον ϝεηνίσκοι.
θεῶν ἀδελφῶν τέμενος ὁ βασιλεὺς χρηστός:
Μουσῇον οἶνος ἀγαθὰ πάνθ᾽ ὅσ᾽ ἂν χρῄζῃς.

” (This was written later than Theocr. xv; see Introd. p. 31.) Professor Mahaffy writes (Emp. of Ptol. p. 148), 'It is remarkable that among the many complaints of injustice found in the Petrie and Serapeum papyri made by poor people who seek redress from the law, there is not a single tale of horror. ... The effect which these papers produce upon a careful student is that they belong to an orderly and well-managed society where there is but little actual want and but little lawlessness.'