. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . Mrjfâs, with Phtah and Eamses II. : the eponymous hero becamea god, and Mini is here treated as Ûsirtasen III. was at Semueh, or as Amenôthes III. at Soleb. 4 Herod., ii. 99 ; cf. Wiedemann, Htrodots Zweites Buch, pp. 396-398. 5 Diodoeus Sicumjs, i. 94; he perhaps only promulgated the laws originally drawn up by Thot. 6 .ZElian, Hist. Animalium, xi. 10 ; in Manetho, Kakôù instituted the worship of Hâpis, cf. p. 238. Manetho, in Mulleb-Didot, Fragmenta Historicorum Grxc, vol. ii. pp. 539, 540. « Hebod., ii. 79. According to the De Iside et Osirid
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . Mrjfâs, with Phtah and Eamses II. : the eponymous hero becamea god, and Mini is here treated as Ûsirtasen III. was at Semueh, or as Amenôthes III. at Soleb. 4 Herod., ii. 99 ; cf. Wiedemann, Htrodots Zweites Buch, pp. 396-398. 5 Diodoeus Sicumjs, i. 94; he perhaps only promulgated the laws originally drawn up by Thot. 6 .ZElian, Hist. Animalium, xi. 10 ; in Manetho, Kakôù instituted the worship of Hâpis, cf. p. 238. Manetho, in Mulleb-Didot, Fragmenta Historicorum Grxc, vol. ii. pp. 539, 540. « Hebod., ii. 79. According to the De Iside et Osiride, § 17 (Pabtheys edition, p. 28), the origin of TEE LEGEND OF THE MENES. 235 the luxuries of the table, for he invented the art of serving a dinner, andthe mode of eating it in a reclining One day, while hunting,his dogs, excited by something or other, fell upon him to devour him. Heescaped with difficulty, and, pursued by them, fled to the shore of LakeMceris, and was there brought to bay ; he was on the point of succumbing. on his In gra-called Croco-god the croco- to them, when a crocodile took himand carried him across to the othertitude he built a new town, which liedilopolis, and assigned to it for itsdile which had saved him ; he then erected close to it the famous labyrinthand a pyramid for his Other traditions show him in a less favourablelight. They accuse him of having, by horrible crimes, excited against himthe anger of the gods, and allege that after a reign of sixty to sixty-two years,he was killed by a hippopotamus which came forth from the Theyalso related that the Saïte Tafnakhti, returning from an expedition againstthe Arabs, during which he had been obliged to renounce the pomp andluxuries of royal life, had solemnly cursed him, and had caused his impre-cations to be inscribed upon a stele set up in the temple of Amon at the Maneros is traced back to Isis lamenting the death of Osiris. The questions raised
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