402 Thyfical and Mijcellaneous 



ΓΑί Lotus, the Year. But the Lotus' is the moil common and fignifi- 

 cative among the Vegetable Symbols, being obferved to attend 

 the Motion of the Sun, to lye under Water in it's Ablence, 

 and to have the Flowers, Leaves, Fruit, and Root of the fame 

 round Figure with that Luminary. Ofiris therefore was not 

 only fuppofed to be reprefented, in an extraordinary Manner, 

 by the Lotm^ but to have his Throne^ likewife placed upon 



Flowers. |j. gy aFlowcr ', (it is not material perhaps of which Species) 

 the Power of the Deity was typified, as having thereby con- 

 duced a Plant ( and therein emblematically any animal or 

 vegetable Produftion ) from a Seed ( or fmall Beginning ) to 



The km- a perfeot Flower (or State of iMaturity.) However we read 



mone. _ ' 



that the Anemone \ in particular, was an Emblem of Sickneis. 



The Onion. The Onion^' too, upon Account perhaps of the Root of it, (which 

 confifteth of many Coats, envelopping each other, like the Orbs 

 in the planetary Syftem,) was another oftheir Sacred Vegeta- 

 bles. The Priefts' would not eat it, becaufe, among other 

 Realbns, it created Thirft, and, contrary to the Nature of other 

 Vegetables, grew and increafed when the Moon was in the Wain. 



Ucenfiise^r. Among the great Variety of Utenfils, Inftruments, Mathe- 

 matical Figures &c. that we meet with upon their Obelisks 

 and other Pieces of Sacred Writing, we may give the firft Place 



7fe.caiathus. ^^ ^j^^ {Caldthus) Basket. This is ufually placed upon the Head 

 of Serapis, who was the^fame * with Ofiris, and denoted 7 the 

 various Gifts that were received from and conveyed back to 



m Simla, t jjg Deity. The ( Situla) Bucket, which Ifis carrieth fometimes 

 in her Hand, might probably denote the Faecundity of the 

 Nile ; differing very little, in Shape, from the {^wi^Mi) Cup of 



I Φϋ'ίταί e/ tS tJoLTi κρ'ινίΛ ττο^λά, 7« Aiyj-^m )(^λΜσι λαήγ' Herod. Eut. 5• 92. Es7 ο 19 S ξίζα η 

 ?iann<ns iJ^JlfMi 19 iyyhucjfi, Ιτηαύαί ΐΐν ςρο}ΰ\ον^ μίγι^Ο' κατά (jiiKov. ibid. Κΐ/Χλοτϊ,οιι > λπι'τβ α^Λται τ» 

 <re hon, i^ τα tc TO?f φύλλο/ί ficA), )Lj τα h 7oJ( Mi^'jruf φαινίμίνα «ττ^ <Λ) μί}ΐ>\ xun^n τα κατή κι^κλκ ι» tttfya» 

 Ιςι mryyim. Limb, dc Myfi. ScA.7• cap.z. 2 Eot hanu κα^ήζί^. Id. ibid. 3 Floris fpecies, 

 florem rerum protcftatur, quas hie Deus infeminat, progcnerat, fovct, nutrit, maturatque, 

 Mac. Sat. I. 1. 17. 4 ΑνθΗ ;} ανίμάνια, viiov Sui^ci'7T\t σιαμαία. Horap, Hierogl. 1. 2. cap. 8. 

 4" Porrum & cepe ncfas violare & fiangcrc moriu. 

 Ο iandlas gentes quibus Iisc nafcuntur in hortis 

 Numina. 7«v. Sat.ij. l.p. 



C 0< iJ 'fpHf cLponBVTtti )^ Jh^ifcuvouei K) li κρόμμυον mt£<f^uhaTlov7t(t ov i ιτίληνχί φ^ιννσιιί μοιη^ ΐυτζ^ραν tSto i^ 

 "n^MUyeu mpKit. Pltlt. de If. 3c Of. p. 3 JJ. 6 Αμφω (^Ιαξαττιτ j^ O^icn) hof ^lou }ί}μια.( Jhviμia(. 

 Plutarch, de Ifid. & Of p. ^76. 7 Scrapidis vertex infignitus Calatho & alcitudinem 

 fideris monftrat & potentiam capacitatis oftcntat; quia in eum omnia terrena rcdcunr, dum 

 immiiTo calorc rapiuntur. Macrob. Sat. 1. i. cap. 20. Ο Λ Η3Λα5θτ> ό» ^ το?ί μι-ηά^αα φιξ», •} 

 tar καζττκν )ieiTtfye,triii(t om αναι^ίφιπ κβτκ τμκ ή φοητ{ ιΡ^υζίΐίΐι/' Eufcb. Prip. Evang. p. 68. Calathus 

 aureus furgens in altum monftrat aethcris fummam ; undeSoiis creditureile fubftantia. Macr. 

 ut Supra. Ifidis aph'i infidet calathus cum manubrio, Ο/ΐπί/ίί communis, ut amborum vis 

 frugifera & capacitas omnia in fublime trahentium declarctur. Pi^nor.Tib. If. Exp. Ρ•49• 



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