358 Albert S. Cook, 



209. grisly. ' Fear-inspiring-, horrible ' (L.). 



211. brutish. In the form of beasts. 



212. Isis, and Orus. Cf. P.L. 1. 478. The account given of 

 Isis and Osiris in the Arcopagitica, evident!}- taken from Pkitarch's 

 Of Isis and Osiris, shows Milton in a less contemptuous mood to- 

 wards them. There he speaks of ' the good Osiris.' Isis was the 

 devoted sister and wife of that Osiris who, according to Plutarch 

 {op. cit. 13), ' drew them off from a beggarly and bestial way of 

 living, by showing them the use of grain, and by making them 

 laws, and teaching them to honor the gods.' Orus (Horus) was their 

 son. 



dog Anubis. Strabo (17. 40. p. 812) tells of Cynopolis, 'where 

 they worship the dog Anubis, and pay certain honors to dogs; 

 a subsistence is there provided for them, as sacred animals.' Refer- 

 ences to him in the classics are fairly numerous : Virgil, ^n. 8. 

 698; Ovid, Met. 9. 690; Am. 2. 13. 11; Juv. 15. 8, etc. 



213. Osiris. He is here represented in a twofold capacity : (1) 

 as incarnated in the bull Apis; (2) as inhabiting his shrine. In 

 both capacities he is restless and tormented. 



214. Memphian. Cf. Plutarch, 75. et Osir. 20: 'The Apis is 

 fed at Memphis, because he is the image of Osiris' soul, where 

 also they will have it that his bod}^ is interred.' Add 29, 32 ; Strabo 

 17. 22, 31, 35. For the description of Apis, see Herodotus 3. 27. 



215. unsho-wered grass. For the lack of rain in Egypt, cf. 

 Herodotus 2. 22, and the authorities cited by Wiedemann, Herodots 

 Ziveites Buck, p. 107. Cf. note on 221—3, end. 



217. sacred chest. Cf. 220, worshiped ark. 



218. shroud. ' A place of shelter or protection ' (L.) ; cf. P.L. 

 10. 1068. 



219. timbreled. On the use of the timbrel, or sistrum, in the 

 religious rites of the Egyptians, and particularly in the worship of 

 Isis, see Mayor's note on Juvenal 13. 93, and the authorities cited 

 there. 



dark. 'Mysterious' (L.); cf. P.R. 1. 434. 



220. sable-stoled. Translating the Greek usXavri'foQo;. For the 

 black-robed priests of Isis at Delos, see Lafaye, Hist, du Culte des 

 Divinitcs d' Alexandrie [Bibl. des Ecoles Franc. d'Ath'enes et de 

 Rome 33), p. 147. Cf. Boeckh on C.l.G. 2293 (2. 240). The word 

 is also found in C.l.G. 2294, 2295, 2297; 2297 was first published, 

 as Boeckh notes, by Bembo {Opere, Milan, 1809, 6. 123), from whom 

 it was taken by Selden {De Synedr. II, p. 58). According to Plu- 

 tarch, Is. et Osir. 39, at the mourning of Isis the priests cover a 



