. 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 . S^ywi^ It Chap. 171. THE GREEK MYSTERIES OF CERES. 221 not pass my lips. So too, with regard to the mysteries of Ceres, Zeus) was bound by it ; and the wickedwere punished, not because he rejected. them, but because they were mans conscience, released
. 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 . S^ywi^ It Chap. 171. THE GREEK MYSTERIES OF CERES. 221 not pass my lips. So too, with regard to the mysteries of Ceres, Zeus) was bound by it ; and the wickedwere punished, not because he rejected. them, but because they were mans conscience, released from thesinful body, was his own judge; and self-condemnation hereafter followed up the•γνώθι and αίσχύνΐο aeavrhv enjoined onearth. Tlioth, therefore (Or that partof the divine nature called intellect andconscience), weighed and condemned;and Horus (who had been left on earthto follow out the concpiests of his fatherOsiiis after he had returned to heaven)ushered in the just to the divine pre-sence.—[G. Λν.] * These mj-steries of Osiris, Hero-dotus says, were introduced into Greeceby the daughters of Danaus. (Seenote ^ on ch. 91, note ^ on eh. 107,note ^ on ch. 182, and Book vi. n. ) The fables of antiquity had gene-rally several meanings; they Λvere eitherhistorical, physical, or religious. Theless instructed were led to believeOsiris represented some natural pheno-menon; as the inundation of the Nile,which disappeaiing again, and losingits effects in the sea, was construednto the manifestatio
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