96 . THE WOKLIX, 



the age of Augustus Caesar ; and that they were erected in the 

 Julian Year 4695, which then regulated the Egyptian , twenty- 

 four years before the actual birth of our Savior, and twenty-eight 

 years before the common era. All this is confirmed by the fol- 

 lowing Greek inscription, over the outer or southern portal of the 

 Temple : " On account of the Emperor Csesar, God, the son 

 of Jupiter, the Deliverer, when Publius Octavius being Governor, 

 Marcus Claudius Posthumus Commander in Chief, and Tryphon 

 General, the Deputies of the Metropolis consecrated, in virtue of 

 the Law, the Propylaeum to Isis, the greatest of Goddesses, and 

 to the associated Gods on the Sacred Thoth." The Country of 

 Egypt, had at that time become a Romish Province ; and Augus- 

 tus Caesar, in the 31st year of his age and the 725th year of Rome, 

 ordained that the Egyptian Thoth should for ever commence on 

 the 29th of August. 



