CHAP. XIII. MEANING OF EACH PART. 337 



Typlio, the sea, which swallowed up the Nile 

 water. 



The conspirators, the drought overcoming the 

 moisture, from which the increase of the Nile 

 proceeds. 



The cliest in whicli Osiris's body was confined, 

 the banks of the river, witliin whicli it retired 

 after the inundation. 



The Tanaitic mouth, the lake and barren lands 

 about it, which were lield in abhorrence from 

 tlieir being overflowed by the river without 

 producing any benefit to the country. 



The 28 years of his life, the " 28 cubits to which 

 the Nile rises at Elephantina*, its greatest 

 height." 



The 17th of Athor, the period wlien the river 

 retires within its banks. 



The Queen of ^(Ethiopia, the southern winds 

 preventing the clouds being carried south- 

 wards. 



The difi^erent members of Osiris's body, the 

 main channels and canals by which the in- 

 undation passed into the interior of the coun- 

 try, where each was said to be afterwards 

 buried. That one which could not be reco- 

 vered was the generative power of the Nile, 

 which still continued in the stream itself; or, 

 as Plutarch thinks, it was said to have been 

 thrown into the river, because '* water or 

 moisture was the first matter upon which the 

 generative power of the Deity operated, and 



* Plut. dc Is. s. 43. 

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