XXXIV. 1. Moreover, they say that sun and moon

do not use chariots for vehicles, but sail round in boats — [thus] riddling their being nourished by and being bom in the " Moist."
2. And they think that Homer also, like Thales, set down Water as source and birth of all things, after
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learning [it] from Egyptians ; for that Oceanos is Onzv» and TgtliyB ^ Isia, as nursing all things and naring thsm all up together.
3. For Greeks also call ''emission of seed " av-oimv and "intercourse'* (n/y-owuzy, and "son" (wor) from ''water* (u&rro^) and "moisten" (Jtcroi);* and [thej call] Dionysus Hu§s» as lord of the Moiat Nature, in that he is no other than OsiriSb
4. In fact, Hellanicus* seems to have heard Oiiris called Hu-siris by the priests ; for he peraiats in thus calling the god, presumably from his nature and power of invention.^
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