CHAP. xiir. HISTORY OF osniis. 331 



held in the utmost abhorrence by the Egyptians, 

 and never named by them but with proper marks 

 of detestation. 



** These things happened on the 17th day of the 

 montli Athyr, when the Sun was in Scorpio, in the 

 28th year of Osiris's reign ; though others say he 

 was no more than 28 years old at tlie time. 



" Tlie first who knew the accident, that had be- 

 fallen their King, were the Pans and Satyrs who 

 lived about Chemmis ; and they, immediately ac- 

 quainting the people with the news, gave the first 

 occasion to the name of Panic terrors. . . . Isis, as 

 soon as the report reached her, cut off one of the 

 locks of her hair, and put on mourning; whence the 

 spot where she then happened to be has ever since 

 been called Koptos, or the city of mourning. * And 

 being informed that Osiris, deceived by her sister 

 Nephthys, who was in love with him, had unwit- 

 tingly taken her to his embraces instead of herself, 

 as she concluded from the Mellilot garland, which 

 he had left with her, she proceeded to search out 

 the child, the fruit of their unlawful union. For her 

 sister, dreading the anger of her husband Typho, 

 had exposed it as soon as it was born ; and it was 

 not without great difficulty, that by means of some 

 dogs, she discovered the place of its concealment. 

 Having found it, she bred it up ; and it afterwards 

 obtained the name of Anubis." t 



* It is needless to remark, that a Greek origin for this name is as in- 

 admissible as the derivation of Isis from ucng, knowledge, also given by 

 P'.utarch, s. 2. 



f Like other Greek and Roman writers, Plutarch commits the error 

 of givins Anubis a dog's head. 



