LXXIV. 1. There remain of ooorae the utilitarian and

qrnibolical [reaaona], of which aome have to do with one of the two [Groda], bat moat [of them] with bodi.
2. Aa for the ox and aheep and ichneumon,* it is clear they paid them honoora on account of their naefulneaa and utility, — ^juat aa T/imnianB created larks which aeek out and break the egga of locuata, and Theaaaliana atorka, becauae when their land produced multitudea of anakea, they came and deetroyed them all — (wherefore they made a law that whoever killed a atoA ahould be baniahed') — ao with the aap and weasel and acarab, becauae they diacemed in them certain faint likeneeaea of the power of the Groda, aa it were [that] of the aun in water-dropa.
3. For aa to the weaael, many atill think and aay that aa it ia impregnated through the ear and brings forth by the mouth, it ia a likeneaa of the birth of reason {logo$)}
4 Again [they aay] the apeciea of acarab haa no female, but all, aa malea, discharge their aeed into the atuff they have made into balla,* which they roll abng by puahing, moving [themaelvee] in the ofqKMite direction, just aa the aun aeema to turn the heaven round in the oppoaite direction, while it is [the beaven] itself that movee from weat to eaat*
* A lacuna ocean here which I have partially filled np^ oonjectuitJly, as aboTe.
t An Egyptian animal hunt oQt crocodiles' eggs ; also called ^ Pharaoh's rat*
* Cy. AriBt., Aftro^., xxiii
« Cy. xxii. l—'ThysiologaB" again. For a criticann ol this legend, see B. 43. * QT. x. 9.
* Budge(op. eii^ iL 379 f.) writes : ^ The beetle or soaiabaras . . . belongs to the family called Scaiabaddn (OoprophagiX of whkh
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6. And the asp, because it does not age, and moves without limbs with ease and pliancy, they likened to a star.