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male ;1 and likewise to portraits of persons consecrated, or repre-
sented in a sacred or sacerdotal character, which, in such cases, it
invariably signifies.1
88. The Egyptian Horns is said to have been the son of Osiris
and Isis, and to have been born while both his parents were in
the womb of their mother Rhea ;3 a fable which means no more
than that the active and passive powers of production joined in the
general concretion of substance, and caused the separation or deli-
very of the elements from each other: for the name Apollo is evi-
dently a title derived from a Greek verb, signifying to deliver from; 4
and it is probable that Horns (or whatever was the ./Egyptian name
of this deity) had a similar meaning, it being manifestly intended to
signify a personified mode of action of Osiris ;5 in the same manner as
Liber, the corresponding title in the Latin tongue, signified a per-
sonified mode of action of the generator Bacchus.6 His statue at
Coptos had the symbol of the generative attribute in his hand, said
to be taken from Typhon, the destroying power ;7 and there are
small statues of him now extant, holding the circle and cross, which
seems to have been the symbol meant. Typhon is said to have
1 See heads of Venus on the gold coins of Tarentum, silver of Corinth—r
of Bacchus on those of Lampsacus, &c.
* See medals of Julius Caesar, Livia, the Queens of Syria and Egypt, bust
of Marcus Aurelius in the Townley collection, &c.
3 'H pzv y&P> cti tuv QeoiV ei> yavrpt ttjs "Pear ovtoiv, e£ IcriSos icai Offipifios y€V0/l€V7j
ATToAkaivas, &c. Plutarch, de Is. et Osir. p. 373. We only quote Plu-
tarch's facts, his explanations>and etymologies being oftener from the School
of Plato, than from ancient Egypt.
4 A™*.™, anciently written AnpATFfl.
5 Eo-rt 8' ovtos ('npos) <5 irnpiynos koo-/j.os, ovre (pOopas airaWarronevos Trnvrairaaiv,
oure yeveams. Plutarch.' de Is. et Osir. p. 87 1.
Plutarch, in this explanation, has only mistaken the effect for the cause.
6 The Latin adjective liber comes from the Greek verb AYFil; by a well-
known variation of dialect, from the T to the I, and from the F to theB.
7 Ei/ Ka-t'u to aya\'j.a tov 'Opcv c> hepa ^fipt Tvtpavos biSoi« KOToxei. Plutarch,
dc h. ct Osir. p. 470.
male ;1 and likewise to portraits of persons consecrated, or repre-
sented in a sacred or sacerdotal character, which, in such cases, it
invariably signifies.1
88. The Egyptian Horns is said to have been the son of Osiris
and Isis, and to have been born while both his parents were in
the womb of their mother Rhea ;3 a fable which means no more
than that the active and passive powers of production joined in the
general concretion of substance, and caused the separation or deli-
very of the elements from each other: for the name Apollo is evi-
dently a title derived from a Greek verb, signifying to deliver from; 4
and it is probable that Horns (or whatever was the ./Egyptian name
of this deity) had a similar meaning, it being manifestly intended to
signify a personified mode of action of Osiris ;5 in the same manner as
Liber, the corresponding title in the Latin tongue, signified a per-
sonified mode of action of the generator Bacchus.6 His statue at
Coptos had the symbol of the generative attribute in his hand, said
to be taken from Typhon, the destroying power ;7 and there are
small statues of him now extant, holding the circle and cross, which
seems to have been the symbol meant. Typhon is said to have
1 See heads of Venus on the gold coins of Tarentum, silver of Corinth—r
of Bacchus on those of Lampsacus, &c.
* See medals of Julius Caesar, Livia, the Queens of Syria and Egypt, bust
of Marcus Aurelius in the Townley collection, &c.
3 'H pzv y&P> cti tuv QeoiV ei> yavrpt ttjs "Pear ovtoiv, e£ IcriSos icai Offipifios y€V0/l€V7j
ATToAkaivas, &c. Plutarch, de Is. et Osir. p. 373. We only quote Plu-
tarch's facts, his explanations>and etymologies being oftener from the School
of Plato, than from ancient Egypt.
4 A™*.™, anciently written AnpATFfl.
5 Eo-rt 8' ovtos ('npos) <5 irnpiynos koo-/j.os, ovre (pOopas airaWarronevos Trnvrairaaiv,
oure yeveams. Plutarch.' de Is. et Osir. p. 87 1.
Plutarch, in this explanation, has only mistaken the effect for the cause.
6 The Latin adjective liber comes from the Greek verb AYFil; by a well-
known variation of dialect, from the T to the I, and from the F to theB.
7 Ei/ Ka-t'u to aya\'j.a tov 'Opcv c> hepa ^fipt Tvtpavos biSoi« KOToxei. Plutarch,
dc h. ct Osir. p. 470.