LIX. 1. But where Typhon steals in, laying hold of

the last [parts, we should think of Her as] then seeming to wear a melancholy countenance, and being said to
» 4K/iayuop. Cf. Plat., Tim., 60 O ; Thseet., 191 0, 196 a. * rh ^p/ia T^f Tvyaiir^t— lit., " the seed of the woman." » Of. Ivii 2.
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monrD, and to be seeking after certain rdks and frag- ments of Osiris, and enfolding ibem in her robes, receiving them when destroyed into herself, and hiding them away, just as 9ie also produoea theo again when they are bom, and sends them forth from berselt
2. For while the reasons (loffoi) and ideas and emanations of the Grod in heaven and stars remain [fc^ ever], those that are disseminated into things passible — in earth and sea and plants and animals — being dissolved and destroyed and buried, come to light over and over again and reappear in their births.
3. For which cause the myth says that T^phon lived with Nephthys, but that Osiris had knowledge of her secretly.
4. For the last parts of Matter, which they call Nephthys and End, are mainly in possession of die destructive power ; nevertheless the Generative and Saving One distributes into them weak and faint seed which is destroyed by Tjrphon, except so much as Isis by adoption saves and nourishes and compacts together.