LXV. 1. And we shall also get our hands on the dull

crowd who take pleasure in associating the [mystic recitals] about theee Gods either with changes of the atmosphere according to the seasons, or with the genera- tion of the com and sowings and plou^iings^ and in saying that Osiris is buried when the sown com is hidden by the earth, and comes to life and shows himself again when it begins to sprout.
2. For which cause also [they declare] that Us, on feeling she is pregnant, ties an amulet round her [neck] on the sixth day of the first half of the month Phaophi ;* and that Harpocrates is brought forth about the winter solstice imperfect and infant in the things that sprout too early .•
3. For which cause they ofler him first-fruits of growing lentils, and they keep the days €i thanks for safe delivery after the spring equinox.
4 For they love to hear these things and believe them, drawing conviction from things immediately at hand and customary.