LXI. 1. And Osiris has had his name from a combina-

tion of 00-109 (holy) and cepop (sacred) ; for there is a common Beason (Logos) of things in Heaven and of things in Hades, — the former of which the ancients were accustomed to call sacred, and the latter holy.
2. And the Beason that [both] brings [down] to light the heavenly things and is [also] of things that are
^ Qf. ii. 3 for the word-play, and also for 6trta in the next paragraph.
Ast
' riiw6fftdw — but Plutarch is mistaken, for in C^atylus, 401c it is a question of o^crkU and ^(rkU and not of dtridw and ItrUw.
* Ufi4poVf picking up the Uir$tu above in paragraph 2.
^ Cf. Orai,, 415 D, where the word-play is Ap«r j^ and &f i-p«ir j^ (ever-flowing).
* Cf. Orat,f 416 c — where the play is Kair-^a=«a««f 2^ (Urat)— badly going.
^ iLwop-ta—the word-play being & (not) and vop't6§^§u (going) — *6ii., 0, D.
* " 8f lA/a signifies that the soul is bound with a strong chain {99fffihs\ for x(ar means strength, and therefore Scix^ expresses the greatest and strongest bond of the soul" (ibid,). See Jowett, i.359 f.
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mounting upwards/ is called Anufais, and aometinieB also Hermanubis,^ belonging in his former capadtj to things above and in his latter to things below [Uiem].
3. Wherefore also they ofibr him in his fonnercapacitj a white cock,' and in his latter a saffron-coloured one, — thinking that the former things are pore and the latter mixed and manifold
4. Nor ought we to be surprised at the man^ra]a- tion of the names back into Greek.^ For tens of thousands of others that disappeared with those who emigrated from Greece, continue unto this day and sojourn with foreigners ; for recalling some of ^riiidi they blame the poets' art as " barharisinfc" — ^I mem those who call such words "glosses."*
5. Further, they relate that in what are called the "Books of Hermes," it is written that tbej caU the Power that rules the ordained reyolution of the Son, Horns, while the Greeks [call it] Apollo ; and the Poww that rules the Breath [or Spirit], some [call] Otsiria, others Sarapis, and others Sothis in Egyptian.
6. The last means "conception" (jcu^o-cy) or "con- ceiving " (to KV€ivy Wherefore also, by inversion of the name, the star [Sothis] which they consider the special one of Isis, is called Dog (jcMvy) in Greek.
7. We should, however, least of all be jealous about the names ; still if we were, I would sooner give up
1 That is, thingB in Hades (the Invisible) — ^not Tutaraa
* Horns was endowed with many characteristics of othar goda. Thus with Anpn or Annbis he beoomet Hem-em-Anpo, t.«. Horns as Anubis, and is said to dwell in the *' divine halL" Tbk if the Hennanubis of Plutarch. Cf. Bodgei op. eU.^ i 49S.
* '*A cock to .fsculapins.''
* Cf. xxix. 8.
* YXikror— a technical term for obsolete or foreign words thai need explanation.
* Cf. XXI. 2.
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''Sarapis" than "OedriB"; for though I think the former is a foreign one and the latter Greek, yet are they both [names] of One Gk)d and One Power.