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75 Of the animals that are held in honour for both reasons, mention has already been made of the dog. supra, 355 b and 368 f. The ibis, Cf. Diodorus, i. 87. 6. which kills the deadly creeping things, was the first to teach men the use of medicinal purgations when they observed her employing clysters and being purged by herself. Cf. Aelian, De Natura Animalium, ii. 35; Pliny, Natural History, x. 40 (75). The most strict of the priests take their lustral water for purification from a place where the ibis has drunk Cf. Moralia, 974 c; Aelian, De Natura Animalium, vii. 45.: for she does not drink water if it is unwholesome or tainted, nor will she approach it. By the spreading of her feet, in their relation to each other and to her bill, she makes an equilateral triangle. Cf. Moralia, 670 c. Moreover the variety and combination of her black feathers with her white picture the moon in its first quarter.

75 There is no occasion for surprise that the Egyptians were so taken with such slight resemblances; for the Greeks in their painted and sculptured portrayals of the gods made use of many such. Tor example, in Crete there was a statue of Zeus having no ears; for it is not fitting for the Ruler and Lord of all to listen to anyone. Beside the statue of Athena Pheidias placed the serpent and in Elis beside the statue of Aphroditê the tortoise, Cf. Moralia, 142 d; Pausanias, vi. 25. 2. to indicate that maidens need watching, and that for married women staying at home and silence is becoming. The trident of Poseidon is a symbol of the Third Region where the sea holds sway, for it. has been assigned to a demesne of less importance than the heavens and the air. For this reason they thus named Amphitritê and the Tritons.An effort to derive these names from τρίτος, third.

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