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发帖数: 759 | 1 CHAP. 5 --OF APIS KING OF ARGOS, WHOM THE EGYPTIANS CALLED
SERAPIS, AND WORSHIPPED WITH DIVINE HONORS.
In these times Apis king of Argos crossed over into Egypt in
ships, and, on dying there, was made Serapis, the chief god
of all the Egyptians. Now Varro gives
this very ready reason why, after his death, he was called,
not Apis, but Serapis. The ark in which he was placed when
dead, which every one now calls a
sarcophagus, was then called in Greek soros,
and they began to worship |
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