CHAP. XIII. THE SAME AS APOLLO. 397 



Typho was searching every where for the son of 

 Osiris. For they say that Apollo and Diana are 

 born of Bacchus (Osiris) and Isis, and that Latona 

 was their nurse and preserver. Apollo is called Orus 

 (Horus) in Egyptian ; Ceres, Isis ; and Diana, Bu- 

 bastis." This a})pears to have been the origin of 

 the fable respecting the Delos of the Greek Apollo, 

 whicli floated on the sea till it was made stationary 

 by Neptune in order to receive Latona, who was 

 on the eve of being delivered of Apollo. 



Diodorus* tells us that Apollo is the same as 

 Horus, that the latter was taught the art of me- 

 dicine by his mother Isis, and that he was the last 

 of the Gods who were fabled to have reigned on 

 earth ; — a figurative tale, which I have already 

 explained by the historical fact of the priesthood 

 of different Gods having ruled Egypt before the 

 monarchical form of government was established 

 in the person of Menes and his successors. 



Little reliance, however, is to be placed on 

 what the Greeks tell us of the Deities of Egypt. 

 The authority of Greek inscriptions in the tem- 

 ples should be preferred to that of Herodotus, 

 Diodorus, Macrobius, or any other writers ; but, 

 unfortunately, some difficulty arises from the un- 

 certainty of the hieroglyphic legends themselves, 

 — and these even leave undecided the claims of 

 Horus and Aroeris to the name of A})ollo. 



Plutarch t would lead us to conclude that the 



* Diodor. i. 25. Fide also, Macrob. Saturn, i. 2L ^lian, x. 14. &c. 

 f Pint, de Is. s. 30. 



