XXVII. 1. Bom from the self-same womb as these

and things like them, they say, are the legends about Typhon : how that he wrought dire deeds through envy and ill-will, and after throwing all things into confusion and filling the whole earth and sea as well with ills, he afterwards did make amenda
1 The air or ether that surroundB the earth.
* Op,d Diet, 126. * Sifmp^ SOS K.
* That is, *' interpretative and ministering.**
* £. flourished 4d4-434 B.C.
^ Stein, 377 fifl ; Karsten, 16 ff. ; Fairbanks, p. S04. The quotation appears to me inapposite, for Empedodee seems to be speaking of "any who defile their bodies sinfully "and not of daimones ; but perhaps the *' received ** recombination of t2ia fragments is at fiiult.
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2. But the sister- wife^ of Osiris who upheld his honour, after she had quenched and laid to rest Typhon's frenzy and fury, did not allow forgetfulness and silence to overtake the struggles and trials he had endured, and her own wanderings and many [deeds] of wisdom, and many [feats] of manliness; but inter- mingling with the most chaste perfectionings images and under-meanings and copies of the passion she then endured, she hallowed at one and the same time a lesson of religion and a consolation to men and women placed in like circumstances.
3. And she and Osiris, being changed through virtue from good daimones into gods' — as [were] subsequently Heracles and Dionysus — possess the dignities of gods and daimones at one and the same time, fitly combined everywhere indeed but with the greatest power among those above earth and under earth.
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4 For they say that Sarapis is no other than Pluto, and Isis Fersephassa, as Archemachus of Euboea has said,^ and Heracleides of Fontus, when he supposes that the seat of the oracle at Canopus is Flute's.