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ita Isidori) mentions of the Cat. Photii Bibliotheca. c. 242. p. 1049. [55] By Strabo expressed [Greek: Keipos], who says, that it was reverenced by the people at Babylon, opposite to Memphis. l. 17. p. 1167. [Greek: Keipon de Babulonioi hoi kata Memphin (sebousi)]. [56] Babun, [Greek: Babun], of Hellanicus Lesbius. Athenaeus. l. 15. p. 680. called Bebon, [Greek: Bebon], by Manethon. Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. p. 371, 376. Babon was thought to have been the same as Typhon: by some esteemed a female, and the wife of that personage. Plutarch. ibid. The Ape and Monkey were held sacred, not in Egypt only, but in India, and likewise in a part of Africa. Diodorus Sicul. l. 20. p. 793. Maffeus mentions a noble Pagoda in India, which was called the monkeys' Pagoda. Historia Ind. l. 1. p. 25: and Balbus takes notice of Peguan temples, called by the natives Varelle, in which monkeys were kept, out of a religious principle. See Balbi Itinerarium. [57] Martianus Capella. l. 4. sub initio. Astronomia is made to speak to the same purpose.--Per immensa spatia seculorum, ne profana loquacitate vulgarer, AEgyptiorum clausa adytis occulebar. Martianus Capella. l. 8. [58] Johannes Sarisburiensis Metalogic. l. 2. p. 787. Editio Lugd. Bat. anno 1639. He speaks of Parmenides as if he were a native of Egypt; and seems to have understood that Parmenides took up his residence in the Egyptian seminary, in order to obtain a thorough knowledge in science. Et licet Parmenides AEgyptius in rupe vitam egerit, ut rationem Logices inveniret, tot et tantos studii habuit successores, ut ei inventionis suae totam fere praeripuerint gloriam. [59] Hermes was the same as Anubis Latrator. Jablonsky. l. 5. c. 1. [Greek: Kuna sebeis; tupto d' ego.] Anaxandrides apud Athenaeum. l. 7. p. 300. [Greek: Hermen kuna.] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. [60] Strabo. l. 17. p. 1167. [Greek: Kunokephalon de (timosin) Hermopolitai.] [61] [Greek: Hermopolitike phulake]. Strabo. ibid. [62] Analogous to this we read in Herodotus, that the Persian brigade, whose deficiencies were supplied by continual recruits, was styled [Greek: athanatos], immortalis. Herodotus. l. 7. c. 83. It consisted of ten thousand men. [63] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 37. [64] [Greek: Dodekatis hemeras kath' hekasten horan OUREI Kunokephalos.] Horapollo. l. 1. c. 16. [65] Herodot. l. 4. c. 191. Upon the Mare Erythraeum, [Greek: hidruma Kunoskephalon kaloumenon]. Strabo. l. 16.
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