984 Firmicus Maternus, _De errore profanarum religionum_, 2, § 6, _defensores eorum volunt addere physicam rationem, frugum semina Osirim dicentes esse; Isim terram, Tyfonem calorem: et quia maturatae fruges calore ad vitam hominum colliguntur et divisae a terrae consortia separantur et rursus adpropinquante hieme seminantur, hanc volunt esse mortem Osiridis, cum fruges recondunt, inventionem vero, cum fruges genitali terrae fomento conceptae annua rursus coeperint procreatione generari_; Eusebius, _Praepar. Evang._ iii. 11, 31, ὁ δὲ Ὄσιρις παρ᾽ Αἰγυπτίος τὴν κάρπιμον παρίστησι δύναμιν, ἤν θρήνοις ἀπομειλίσσονται εἰς γῆν ἀφανιζομένην ἐν τῷ σπόρῳ. καὶ ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν καταναλισκομένην εὶς τὰς τροφάς. _ 985 Op. cit._ 27, § 1. _ 986 Isis et Osiris_, 21, αινῶ δὲ τομὴν ξύλου καὶ σχίσιν λίνου καὶ χοὰς χεομένας. διὰ τὸ πολλὰ τῶν μυστικῶν ἀναμεμῖχθαι τούτοις. Again, c. 42, τὸ δὲ ξύλον ἐν ταῖς λεγομέναις; Ὀσίριδος ταφαῖς τέμνοντες κατασκευάζουσι λάρνακα μηνοειδὴ. 987 See above, p. 304. 988 Lefébure, _Le mythe Osirien_, pp. 194, 198, referring to Mariette, _Denderah_, iv. 66 and 72. 989 Lefébure, _op. cit._ pp. 195, 197. 990 Birch, in Wilkinson’s _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_ (London, 1878), iii. 84. 991 Wilkinson, _op. cit._ iii. 63 _sq._; Ed. Meyer, _Geschichte des Alterthums_, i. §§ 56, 60. 992 Wilkinson, _op. cit._ iii. 349 _sq._; Brugsch, _Religion und Mythologie der alten Aegypter_, p. 621; Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 20. In Plutarch _l.c._ Parthey proposes to read μυρίκης for μηθίδης, and this conjecture appears to be accepted by Wilkinson, _l.c._ 993 Lefébure, _Le mythe Osirien_, p. 191. 994 Lefébure, _op. cit._ p. 188. 995 Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 35. One of the points in which the myths of Isis and Demeter agree, is that both goddesses in their search for the loved and lost one are said to have sat down, sad at heart and weary, on the edge of a well. Hence those who had been initiated at Eleusis were forbidden to sit on a well. Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 15; Homer, _Hymn to Demeter_, 98 _sq._; Pausanias, i. 39, 1; Apollodorus, i. 5, 1; Nicander, _Theriaca_, 486; Clemens Alex., _Protrept._ ii. 20. 996 Brugsch, _Religion und Mythologie der alten Aegypter_, p. 645. 997 C. P. Tiele, _History of Egyptian Religion_, p. 57. _ 998 Hibbert Lectures_, 1879, p. 111. 999 Diodorus, i. 14. Eusebius (_Praeparat. Evang._ iii. 3) quotes from Diodorus (i. 11-13) a long passage on the early religion of Egypt, prefacing the quotation (c. 2) with the remark γράφει δὲ καὶ τὰ περὶ τούτων πλατύτερον μὲν ὁ Μανέθως, ἐπετετμημένως δὲ ὁ Διόδωρος, which seems to imply that Diodorus epitomised Manetho. 1000 Brugsch, _op. cit._ p. 647. 1001 Brugsch, _op. cit._ p. 649. 1002 Brugsch,_l.c._