Plutarchus; Squire, Samuel [Hrsg.]; Xylander, Wilhelm [Bearb.]; Baxter, William [Bearb.]; Bentley, Richard [Bearb.]; Markland, Jeremiah [Bearb.]: Plutarchu Peri Isidos kai Osiridos: Graece et Anglice (Cantabrigiae, 1744)

PREFACE. ϊκ
The affairs of his own Country being now
fully settled, either by invitation or of his own
spontaneous motion, accompanied with great
multitudes of People 0fir is travels to the Co-
lonies of his brethren, which were now every
where settling in Arabia, Phenicia, Syria, &c,
instruding them in all those Arts and Means
of easier and more elegant life, which he had
invented for the use of his own subjeds. His
Expedition was wholly peaceful, and had no-
thing of War in it. Isis was left regent of the
kingdom during his absence with the wise
Aroueris or Mercury for her Counsellor.
But not all his illustrious adions were suffi-
cient to fecure Ofiris from the treacherous at-
tempts of the ambitious Typho, who, enraged
at his brother’s being preferred before him in
the affedions of the People, and envious of his
still-growing glory, was resolved by any means
to deslroy him, and to raiie himself upon his
ruin.—Jealousy however seems to have given
the finiihing stroke to his irreconcilable Ha-
tred. For his wife TV'epthys, falling in love with
the King, had found means to deceive him
under the appearance of Isis, and to have a
child by him.
Typho begins his destined revenge by mak-
ing love to the Queen during Ofiriss absence;
and