Brugsch has identified the locality _Kenemit_ with the Great Oasis at Khargeh. It may be asked if the Oasis bore this name at the time when this chapter was composed. The determinative ⁂ proves nothing beyond the actual sense of the word, but it suggests that the _Dark_ may be a sufficient translation. From the etymology I should like to assimilate it to the ποικιλείμων νὺξ of the Prometheus Vinctus, or to the ‘furvo circumdata peplo’ of the Latin poet. 23. _Of inconstant mind_, ⁂⁂⁂. 24. Another intelligible reading of the precept is, “I rob not the dead of their wrappings”; but the text is so corrupt that none of the readings are of any value. The god is called ⁂⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, both of which words I understand in the sense of _busy-minded_, _planning_, _devising_, _crafty_, _wise_. The appellative _Horned one_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, of the next precept, is the exact equivalent of the Hebrew בַּעַל קַרְנַיִס, and is the attribute of Osiris (_Todt._, 144, 4), especially in the character of ⁂⁂⁂; under which name he was worshipped at Sutenhunen. 25. _Noisy in speech_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. 26. _Striker_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂. A name of Horus, on which see ch. 103, note. 27. There is no locality about which there is any agreement between the older papyri, and many of them omit the mention of a locality; later authorities, like the Turin text, read ⁂⁂ _Annu_. 28. _No unjust preferences_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂. There is no virtue more frequently extolled on the funereal monuments than the absence of favouritism. Great personages in their epitaphs are strong in their declarations that they made no distinction between great and small, rich or poor, wise or simple. The declaration of Ameni (_Denkm._, ii, 122), ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, is a type of many others. 29. Of _raised head_, ⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂, or (B.M. 9971) ⁂⁂⁂. This, like the last two, is a name of the Nile god, who is one of the manifestations of Osiris. 30. _Who liftest an arm_, ⁂⁂, not ‘_amener_ son bras.’ ⁂, like the Greek φέρειν, means _bear_ in the sense of _holding up_, _supporting_. When it signifies _bring_ the collateral notion of _motion_ is imported from the context. The god Shu, who is called ⁂⁂, _holds up_, _supports_, _the sky_, but does not _bring_ it. The god _who holds up his arm_, is of course the ithyphallic Amon[132] ⁂, who in Ch. 17 is identified not only with Horus but with Osiris. 31. This introduction to Part III of this chapter occurs only in the Papyrus of Nebkat (_Pe_). Another ancient manuscript (_Pb_) has the words “Said upon approaching triumphantly to the Hall of Righteousness.” But the texts generally begin with the invocation, “Hail ye gods, I know you and I know your names.” 32. _Reverse of mine_, ⁂⁂, a turn of the wheel, which the context implies to be unfortunate. A very absurd reading is ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, as if the defendant were master of the fates of his divine judges.