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_mentem_,
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of the soul. Cf. Virg., Æn., vi., 11,
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Cui mentem animamque Delius inspirat Vates. When opposed to _animus_, anima is simply
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Anima, quâ vivimus; mens qua cogitamus. Lactant. So Sat., xv., 148,
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Indulsit communis conditor illis tantum animas nobis animum quoque.
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Doubtless such kindred minds th' immortals seek, And such the souls with whom by night they speak.
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Linigeri fugiunt calvi sistrataque turba. Isis is said to have been a queen of Egypt, and to have taught her subjects the use of linen, for which reason the inferior priests were all clothed in it. All who were about to celebrate her sacred rites had their heads shaved. Isis married Osiris, who was killed by his brother Typhon, and his body thrown into a well, where Isis and her son Anubis, by the assistance of dogs, found it. Osiris was thenceforth deified under the form of an ox, and called Apis: Anubis, under the form of a dog. (Hence Virg., Æn., viii., 698,
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Latrator Anubis. ) An ox, therefore, with particular marks (vid. Strab., xvii.; Herod., iii., 28), was kept in great state, which Osiris was supposed to animate; but when it had reached a certain age (non est fas eum certos vitæ excedere annos, Plin., viii., 46), it was drowned in a well (mersum in sacerdotum fonte enecant) with much ceremonious sorrow, and the priests, attended by an immense concourse of people, dispersed themselves over the country, wailing and lamenting, in quest of another with the prescribed marks (quæsituri luctu alium quem substituant; et donec invenerint mærent, derasis etiam capitibus. Plin., ii., 3). When they had found one, their lamentations were exchanged for songs of joy and shouts of εὑρήκαμεν (cf. viii., 29, Exclamare libet populus quod clamat Osiri invento), and the ox was led back to the shrine of his predecessor. These gloomy processions lasted some days; and generally during these (or nine days at least) women abstained from intercourse with their husbands. These rites were introduced at Rome, the chief priest personating Anubis, and wearing a dog's head. Hence _derisor_. Cf. xv., 8,
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Oppida tota canem venerantur.
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Her internuntial office none deny, Between us peccant mortals and the sky.
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Or bid, at times, the human victim bleed, And then inform against you for the deed.
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By whose hired tablet and concurring spell, The noble Roman, Otho's terror, fell.
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Spem majorem cepit ex affirmatione Seleuci _Mathematici_, qui cum eum olim superstitem Neroni fore spopondisset, tunc ultro inopinatus advenerat, imperaturum quoque brevi repromittens. Cf. Tac., Hist., i., 22, who says one Ptolemæus promised Otho the same when with him in Spain. Ptolemy helped to fulfill his own predictions,
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Nec deerat Ptolemæus, jam et sceleris instinctor, ad quod facillimè ab ejusmodi voto transitur.
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Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum. x., 170,
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Ut Gyaræ clausus scopulis parvaque Seripho.
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To him thy Tanaquil applies, in doubt How long her jaundiced mother may hold out.
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xi., Ep. viii., 6,
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By whom a greasy almanac is borne, With often handling, like chafed amber worn.
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Chaldean art