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)

PLUTARCH's TREATISE

O F
I S I 5 and OSIRIS,
Transsated into Engli/h.

INTRODUCTION.

I. H O’ it be the wise man’s duty, O Cle a, to
I apply to the Gods for every good thing which
he hopes to enjoy ; yet ought he more especially to
pray to them for their aslissance in his search aster that
knowledge, which more immediately regards them-
selves, as far as such knowledge may be attained : in
as much as there is nothing, which they can bellow,
more truly beneficial to mankind, or more worthy
themselves, than truth. For whatever other good things
are indulged to the wants of men, they have all, pro-
perly speaking, no relation to, and are of a nature
quite different from that of their divine donors. For
’tis not the abundance of their gold and siver, nor the
command of the thunder, but wisdom and knowledge
which constitute the power and happiness of those hea-
venly beings. It is therefore well observed by Homer,
and indeed with more propriety than he usually talks
of the Gods, where, ipeaking of Jugiter and Neptune,
N he