. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . , plastered overas I have said, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun. Suchis the story they tell of the doings of this bird. 74. In the neighbom-hood of Thebes there are some sacredserpents^ which are perfectly harmless.^ They are of small 1 This bird I forme
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . , plastered overas I have said, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun. Suchis the story they tell of the doings of this bird. 74. In the neighbom-hood of Thebes there are some sacredserpents^ which are perfectly harmless.^ They are of small 1 This bird I formerly supposed tobe the cue represented on the monu-ments with human hands, and oftenwith a mans head and legs, in of prayer (figs. 1, 2), but itis evident that Mr. Stuart Poole isright in considering the Benno (thebird of Osiris) the true Phojnix () ; and the former appears to be thepure soul of the king. Herodotus,Tacitus, and Pomp. Mela fix its return at 500 years, which is evidently anastronomical period; but Tacitus sayssome give it 14(51 years, which pointsto the coincidence of the 1460 inter-calated with the 1461 vague years :and this is confirmed by its beingplaced at an equal distance of timebetween each Sothic period (or 730years before and after the dog-star),on the ceiling of the Memnonium.—[G. W.]. - The homed snake, vipera cerastes, iscommon in Upper Egypt and throughoutthe deserts. It is very poisonous, andits habit of burying itself in the sandrenders it particulai-ly dangerous. PlinyN. H. viii. 23) notices this habit. He-rodotus is correct in describing it size, but the hai-mless snakes he mentions had doubtless been made so ;and Diodorus very properly classes themamong venomous reptiles. There is noauthority from the sculptures for itsbeing sacred, even at Thebes, thoughthe asp is shown to have been a sacredsnake. The frequent repetition of thecerastes in the hieroglyphics is owing to Chap. 73-7δ. THE WINGED SERPENTS. 105 size, and h
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