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38 Of the stars the Egyptians think that the Dog-star is the star of Isis, Cf. 359 d, supra, and 376 a, infra. because it is the bringer of water.In the Nile. They also hold the Lion in honour, and they adorn the doorways of their shrines with gaping lions’ heads, Cf. Moralia, 670 c; Horapollo, Hieroglyphica, i. 21. because the Nile overflows When for the first time the Sun comes into conjunction with Leo.Aratus, Phaenomena, 151. The Dog-star rises at about the same time.

38 As they regard the Nile as the effusion of Osiris, Cf. the note on 365 b, supra. so they hold and believe the earth to be the body of Isis, not all of it, but so much of it as the Nile covers, fertilizing it and uniting with it. Cf. 363 d, supra. From this union they make Horus to be born. The all-conserving and fostering Hora, that is the seasonable tempering of the surrounding air, is Horus, who they say was brought up by Leto in the marshes round about Buto Cf. 357 f, supra.; for the watery and saturated land best nurtures those exhalations which quench and abate aridity and dryness.