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molog'ies, with this difference, — that the Greeks 

 usually derived tlie words of other languages from 

 their own. The analogy between Horus and Ouro, 

 *'King," mentioned by Salmasius*, is remarkable, 

 as Horus was the representative of Majesty among 

 the Gods, and tiie hawk is put to designate a 

 Pharaoh. But, as I have frequently had occasion 

 to observe, it is from Re or Phre (and not from 

 Horus, or, as Josephus supposes, from ouro), that 

 the word Phrah (Pharaoh) was derived. 



The close affinity in some instances between Re 

 (the Sun), and Horus, makes it difficult to distin- 

 guish between them, especially as the hawk is an 

 emblem of both. But the hawk bearing on its 

 head the Disk of the Sim belongs to Re ; and 

 that which wears the Pshent to Horus, the son of 

 Osiris, (who, like Re, was the type of Majesty ;) 

 though, as already stated, this crow^i is sometimes 

 appropriated by other hawk-headed Deities, as 

 Aroeris, and Hor-Hat. 



HoR-OERi, Aroeris, the Elder Horus, the 

 Brother of Isis and Osiris, Phcebus, the 

 Light of the Sun ?. 



I have noticed the difficulty which presents itself 

 in deciding which of these Deities, the elder or 

 younger Horus, corresponds to the Greek Apollo. 



It is true that Aroeris is mentioned in the Greek 

 dedication at Apollinopolis parva, as the Deity of 

 the place, answering to A])ollo ; and the same 



* Vide Jal)loiiski, ii. 4. |). 222. 



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