Splendida porro oculi fugitant vitantque tueri, Sol etiam caecat, contra si tendere pergas. Praeterea splendor quicumque est acer adurit Saepe oculos ideo quod semina possidet ignis Multa, dolorem oculis quae gignunt insinuando. 3. _The primary power of motion and of rest._ These words have a modern sound, but they express the sense of the original, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. 4. _Effluxes_, ⁂⁂⁂, the ἰχώρ, the vital _sap_, as it were, of the body of Osiris, which is the source of life both to men and to gods,[71] and in default of which his own heart (Unas 12) would cease to beat. It is celebrated in all the mythological texts extant from the time of the Pyramids down to the latest inscriptions of Denderah and Edfu, and even in Demotic documents.[72] All moisture was supposed to proceed from it, and the Nile was naturally identified with it. In the Pyramid texts (Pepi 66) ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ is put in parallelism with ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. 5. _A wrecked one._ So I understand ⁂ from Chapter 125, 38, but the whole context here is so doubtful that no translator who respects himself would warrant the sense. 6. _I lie helpless like a dead person._ ⁂⁂⁂, _ḥefṭ_ is the condition of an infant on the knees of its nurse. And I understand ⁂⁂⁂ in its well known euphemistic application to the dead. 7. ⁂⁂⁂ is the most probable reading here, but it is a _hapax legomenon_ with nothing in the context to explain it. ----- Footnote 71: In one of the ancient chapters preserved in the tomb of Horhotep, the deceased, speaking in the person of Horus, talks (319) of quenching his thirst with the ⁂⁂⁂ of his father Osiris. Footnote 72: See a very interesting passage in _Pap. Rhind_ 4, 4, with Brugsch’s translation. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER LXIV. _Chapter whereby one cometh forth by day from the Netherworld._ I am Yesterday, To-day, and To-morrow, for I am born again and again; mine is the unseen Force,(1.) which createth the gods and giveth food to those in the Tuat(2.) at the West of Heaven; I am the Eastern Rudder,(3.) the Lord of Two Faces, who seeth by his own light; the Lord of Resurrections, who cometh forth from the dusk and whose birth is from the House of Death. Ye two divine Hawks(4.) upon your gables, who are giving attentive heed to the matter; ye who accompany the bier to the tomb, and who conduct the ship of Râ, advancing onwards from the highest place of the Ark in heaven—the Lord of the Shrine(5.) which standeth in the centre of the Earth; He is I, and I am He.(6.) Mine is the radiance in which Ptah floateth over his firmament.(7.) Oh Râ, who smileth cheerfully, and whose heart is delighted with the perfect order of this day as thou enterest into Heaven and comest forth in the East: the Ancients and those who are gone before acclaim thee.