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34 PLUTARCH’S Treatife of
may commit, for whatever crimes they may be guii-
ty of,
One while the air pursues them to the sea.
The sea again tossies them upon land.
The land propels them on the scorching sun,
The sun returns them to the whirling air;
Thus are they toss’d about, objects of common
hate,
till having undergone their defined puniffiment, and
thereby become pure, they are again placed in their
primitive situation, in that region where nature origi-
nally deligned them.
27. Of this sort, say these persons, are the adven-
tures which are here ascribed to Typbo: as that, being
full of malice and envy, he perpetrated the mold horrid
crimes, disturbing every where the ordinary course of
things, and filling both sea and land with misery and
confusion, till he was at length puniihed; punissied
by 7/7r, in revenge for the injuries which he had done
to her brother and huiband Ofiris-An effectual hop
being thus put to the fury and madneis of Tyypho, Isis,
herself, say they, in memory of the great contests and
dissiculties which fire had undergone, and of the wan-
sirings which ihe had been exposed to, unwilling like-
wise that so much wisdom, so much courage and reso-
lution as had been ssiewn upon this occasion ihould be
loll· in perpetual silence, appointed certain rites and my-
ssieries, which were to be as images, representations, or
imitations rather os what was then done and buffered ;
with this farther view likewise, that the commemora-
tion of these events might serve as incitements to piety*
and
may commit, for whatever crimes they may be guii-
ty of,
One while the air pursues them to the sea.
The sea again tossies them upon land.
The land propels them on the scorching sun,
The sun returns them to the whirling air;
Thus are they toss’d about, objects of common
hate,
till having undergone their defined puniffiment, and
thereby become pure, they are again placed in their
primitive situation, in that region where nature origi-
nally deligned them.
27. Of this sort, say these persons, are the adven-
tures which are here ascribed to Typbo: as that, being
full of malice and envy, he perpetrated the mold horrid
crimes, disturbing every where the ordinary course of
things, and filling both sea and land with misery and
confusion, till he was at length puniihed; punissied
by 7/7r, in revenge for the injuries which he had done
to her brother and huiband Ofiris-An effectual hop
being thus put to the fury and madneis of Tyypho, Isis,
herself, say they, in memory of the great contests and
dissiculties which fire had undergone, and of the wan-
sirings which ihe had been exposed to, unwilling like-
wise that so much wisdom, so much courage and reso-
lution as had been ssiewn upon this occasion ihould be
loll· in perpetual silence, appointed certain rites and my-
ssieries, which were to be as images, representations, or
imitations rather os what was then done and buffered ;
with this farther view likewise, that the commemora-
tion of these events might serve as incitements to piety*
and