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ANASTASI V. 145
dissent by loud murmurs; and several instances
are recorded of Egyptian monarchs having been
deprived of the honour of the customary public
funeral by the opposing voice of the people. The
effect of this, adds the historian, was, that succeed-
ing kings, fearing so disgraceful a censure after
death, and the eternal stigma attached to it, studied
by their virtuous conduct to deserve the good opi-
nion of their subjects, and it could not fail to be a
great incentive to virtue, independent of the feel-
ings arising from a wish to deserve the gratitude
of men, and the fear of forfeiting the favour of the
gods."
Thus, then, we learn from the papyrus, that some
monarch contemporary with Seti II. did not issue
justified before the ministers. We knew before
that Meneptah II., contemporary with Seti II.,
never tenanted his own gorgeous tomb, and could
not therefore have been justified. The papyrus
individual, then, is Meneptah II.; the allusion of
the Chorus to the child of the Semt people is
explained; and all is, in fact, hitherto consistent
enough.
Accordingly, the duplicate concerning the agri-
cultural picture now follows, which would well do
here also for an allusion to the plagues of the
delta.
The beginning and end of this papyrus are both
wanting; but if we may judge from the average
lengths of the others, no great quantity at either
extremity can be deficient. If so, We are now
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dissent by loud murmurs; and several instances
are recorded of Egyptian monarchs having been
deprived of the honour of the customary public
funeral by the opposing voice of the people. The
effect of this, adds the historian, was, that succeed-
ing kings, fearing so disgraceful a censure after
death, and the eternal stigma attached to it, studied
by their virtuous conduct to deserve the good opi-
nion of their subjects, and it could not fail to be a
great incentive to virtue, independent of the feel-
ings arising from a wish to deserve the gratitude
of men, and the fear of forfeiting the favour of the
gods."
Thus, then, we learn from the papyrus, that some
monarch contemporary with Seti II. did not issue
justified before the ministers. We knew before
that Meneptah II., contemporary with Seti II.,
never tenanted his own gorgeous tomb, and could
not therefore have been justified. The papyrus
individual, then, is Meneptah II.; the allusion of
the Chorus to the child of the Semt people is
explained; and all is, in fact, hitherto consistent
enough.
Accordingly, the duplicate concerning the agri-
cultural picture now follows, which would well do
here also for an allusion to the plagues of the
delta.
The beginning and end of this papyrus are both
wanting; but if we may judge from the average
lengths of the others, no great quantity at either
extremity can be deficient. If so, We are now
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