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■ ^K ahjîmiîis illi narratur in 77jcb.'s, deJitbio Serapis, ut putant, 

 JMemmms Jîatuâ dioatus ; queen quotidiano folis ortu contailum radiis 

 cxpare diainî. 



** The Egyptiam likewife founci, in Ethiopia, a ftone called 

 *' bafaiteS) of the colour and hardnefs of iron 



*' One not unlike it, is faid to be the ftone of which the ftatue 

 ** of Me.mnon is made, at Thebes, in the Temple of Serapis, from 

 ** whence, as the report goes, a found ifllies every morning, on 

 *' it's being ftcuck with the rays of the rifmg Sun." 



Jimenal^ io carefully on his guaid againft fuperftition, efpe- 

 eially the fuperftitions of Egypt, adopts this fad in his fifteenth 

 ■Satire, which is levelled at thefe very fuperftitions. 



Effigies Jaeri nitet anrea cercopithfct^ 



Dimidio magics refonant ubi Memnwie chords ^ 



Jltgue vctus Thebce ceiiîum jacet obruta partis. 



'■'• Tliere fiiines the gilded image of a confecrated monke}', 

 *"' where the magic chords refound from the mutilated ftatue of 

 " Ikmncn, and ancient Thebes lies buried under the ruins of her 

 " hundred gates," 



Paufanias relates, that it was Cambyfes who broke this ftatue ; 

 that half of the trunk was fallen to the ground ; that the other 

 half emitted everyday, at fun-rifing, a found fimilar to that of a 

 bow-ftring liiapping from over-tenfion. 



Philoftratus fpeaks of it from his own knowledge. He fays, in 

 the life oï Jpollcmus of Tyana, that the ISIcmmnium was not only a 

 Temple, but a forum ; that is^ a place of very confiderable extent, 

 containing it's public fqnares, it's private buildings, &c. For 

 temples, in ancient times, had a great many exterior dependen- 

 cies ; the groves which were confecrated to them, apartments 

 for the priefts, enclofares for the viftims, and accommodations 

 ibr the entcrtaiament of ftrangers. Philojlratus afiures us, that 

 ht' faw the ftatue of il4f;;;;;o/^ entire, which fuppofes that the upper 



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