When
Attalus II, King of Pergamos, was founding the famous city which he intended to be the seat of Græco-Asian culture in Lydia, indeed in Asia, he gave it the name of Philadelphia, meaning love of the brethren, in token of the unshaken loyalty and affection of the king for his own brother.
The
world, Hamlet declared, upon a famous occasion, was out of joint, and he went on to regret the despite which had made of him the instrument for its regeneration.