Vetruvius
Ptolemy, actuated by zeal and great desire for the furtherance of learning, collected with no less care, a similar library for the same purpose at Alexandria, about the same period. When by dint of great labour he had completed it, he was not satisfied, unless, like the seed of the earth, it was to go on increasing. He therefore instituted games to the Muses and Apollo, and in imitation of those in which wrestlers contended, he decreed rewards and honors to the victorious in literature. — 7.4
neosalexandria 