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PART I.
tEGYPTIACA.
35
Since the refforation of letters, no regular attempt, as
far as I know, has been made to examine the hiftory of
this fplendid monument of Grecian Antiquity. I fhall
therefore collect fuch notices as remain concerning it;
and though they detain the Reader awhile from the pro-
pofed objedl of inquiry, they will perhaps afford him a
more diftin6f idea of an edifice, celebrated, by the con-
current teffimony of all ancient authors, as fuperior in
grandeur and magnificence to every Heathen Temple,
with the tingle exception of the Roman Capitol.
To Ruffinus, who wrote about the end of the fourth
century, we are indebted for the moff complete and inter-
effing defcription which remains of the Form of the Sera-
Now, as Templeman applies the above quotation from Strabo to the
Alexandrian Serapeum, it is clear that he did not confult the original
Greek ; for Strabo, in the paffage alluded to, fpeaks only of the Serapeum
of Memphis. ’'Eft S' ek xx) ’AppodiVn; iejok, S’exf 'E A Ann so; Ko^i^of/iEKn;' tike;
iJe EsAnKn; legov eJvxi (pxmv. ^Eri <Je xx) ZegXTreiou ek See toVm tnpoSgx, atr9’ Sir xve-
fAaik S’iVji; olfAfAidv cw^euetOoii, xty mk xl <rQty[e;, os'i xxi rrf; xetpxAn; ecogoivlo u<p’ v[auv
xxrxxe^ruirfAEiixi, xi S' lifsnpxveTi" e£ Sv elxx^eev srx^nv tok xlvSvvov, el ra (SxSt^oure
to iffOK AaiAosiJ/ E7ri7r£<roi. IT0A1; S' er) fxeyxXri re xx) euoik^o;, Sevre^x per 'Ahefcxt/Sgeexi/j
[AiyxSav aKiJpcoK xxEtolirsf xx) rtav exeT trvv(fxerriJ.ei/uv. Ed. Amftel. p. Il6l.
Of the Serapeum at Canopus Strabo fpeaks more largely. K*nw6of S' Erl
7roAi; e’k e’ixotn xx\ exxrou rxSlon; xiro ’AAe^oek^eioe; ire^n Ixrrik, E7rojKUju,o; Kxi/uSz rx Me-
veXtxx xvQegmrx, aVoS'aKOKTo; xurod'i, tyx<rx to rx XxgxiriSo; ie^ok 7roAAn xyi^ilx ny.u-
fxevov, xxl 3"egxireex; exipe^ov, lire xxi t«; eWoyi/Aulxrx; xvSgx; 7nrS'j«K, xx) eyxoe^.x<r^rxe
auVa; u-tej Ixvtuu n etejwk. EvyfyxQxm Se tike; icai toe; SegXTrsiXf, aAAoi Si x^erx; tmk
ektoeiAos Aoyiwv. Ibid. p. Ijej2.
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tEGYPTIACA.
35
Since the refforation of letters, no regular attempt, as
far as I know, has been made to examine the hiftory of
this fplendid monument of Grecian Antiquity. I fhall
therefore collect fuch notices as remain concerning it;
and though they detain the Reader awhile from the pro-
pofed objedl of inquiry, they will perhaps afford him a
more diftin6f idea of an edifice, celebrated, by the con-
current teffimony of all ancient authors, as fuperior in
grandeur and magnificence to every Heathen Temple,
with the tingle exception of the Roman Capitol.
To Ruffinus, who wrote about the end of the fourth
century, we are indebted for the moff complete and inter-
effing defcription which remains of the Form of the Sera-
Now, as Templeman applies the above quotation from Strabo to the
Alexandrian Serapeum, it is clear that he did not confult the original
Greek ; for Strabo, in the paffage alluded to, fpeaks only of the Serapeum
of Memphis. ’'Eft S' ek xx) ’AppodiVn; iejok, S’exf 'E A Ann so; Ko^i^of/iEKn;' tike;
iJe EsAnKn; legov eJvxi (pxmv. ^Eri <Je xx) ZegXTreiou ek See toVm tnpoSgx, atr9’ Sir xve-
fAaik S’iVji; olfAfAidv cw^euetOoii, xty mk xl <rQty[e;, os'i xxi rrf; xetpxAn; ecogoivlo u<p’ v[auv
xxrxxe^ruirfAEiixi, xi S' lifsnpxveTi" e£ Sv elxx^eev srx^nv tok xlvSvvov, el ra (SxSt^oure
to iffOK AaiAosiJ/ E7ri7r£<roi. IT0A1; S' er) fxeyxXri re xx) euoik^o;, Sevre^x per 'Ahefcxt/Sgeexi/j
[AiyxSav aKiJpcoK xxEtolirsf xx) rtav exeT trvv(fxerriJ.ei/uv. Ed. Amftel. p. Il6l.
Of the Serapeum at Canopus Strabo fpeaks more largely. K*nw6of S' Erl
7roAi; e’k e’ixotn xx\ exxrou rxSlon; xiro ’AAe^oek^eioe; ire^n Ixrrik, E7rojKUju,o; Kxi/uSz rx Me-
veXtxx xvQegmrx, aVoS'aKOKTo; xurod'i, tyx<rx to rx XxgxiriSo; ie^ok 7roAAn xyi^ilx ny.u-
fxevov, xxl 3"egxireex; exipe^ov, lire xxi t«; eWoyi/Aulxrx; xvSgx; 7nrS'j«K, xx) eyxoe^.x<r^rxe
auVa; u-tej Ixvtuu n etejwk. EvyfyxQxm Se tike; icai toe; SegXTrsiXf, aAAoi Si x^erx; tmk
ektoeiAos Aoyiwv. Ibid. p. Ijej2.
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