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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

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wise and subtle Princes who formerly governed this
land ’ for perceiving, say they, that the Egyptians were
naturally of a light disposition, apt to change and fond
of every novelty, and that the greatness of their num-
bers rendered them invincible, whilst they were guided
by sober counsels, and adted in mutual concert-—he
hereupon devised this sort of Superstition, whilst they
were yet dispersed up and down in their several habi-
tations, as a certain means of propagating eternal dis-
cord and quarrels amongst them. For as amongst the
different species of animals, which he enjoined them to

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