. The redemption of Egypt. r - HS-- - ,1 m::^:ni f. The Kiosk. capital; when the Senate ordered the temples of Isis constructedwithin the ring-wall to be pulled down, no labourer ventured tolay the first hand on them, and the consul Lucius Paullus washimself obliged to apply the first stroke of the axe (704); a wagermight be laid that the more lax any woman was, the more piouslyshe worshijDped Isis. That the casting of lots, the interpretation ASSUAN 287 of dreams, and similar liberal arts supported their professors, was amatter of course. The casting of horoscopes was already a scientificpurs
. The redemption of Egypt. r - HS-- - ,1 m::^:ni f. The Kiosk. capital; when the Senate ordered the temples of Isis constructedwithin the ring-wall to be pulled down, no labourer ventured tolay the first hand on them, and the consul Lucius Paullus washimself obliged to apply the first stroke of the axe (704); a wagermight be laid that the more lax any woman was, the more piouslyshe worshijDped Isis. That the casting of lots, the interpretation ASSUAN 287 of dreams, and similar liberal arts supported their professors, was amatter of course. The casting of horoscopes was already a scientificpursuit; Lucius Tarutius of Firmum, a respectable and in hisown way learned man, a friend of Varro and Cicero, with allgravity cast the nativity of kings Romulus and Numa, and of thecity of Rome itself; and for the edification of the credulous oneither side confirmed, by means of his Chaldean and Egyptianwisdom, the accounts of the Roman annals. ^ Under the Empire the worship of Isis and Serapis became Ift^
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