[Greek: Hos pou eti kai nun en tei anoixei tou hagiou Sarapidos he therapeia dia puros kai hudatos ginetai, leibontos tou humnodou to hudor kai to pur phainontos, hopenika hestos epi tou oudou tei patrioi ton Aiguption phonei egeirei ton theon]. Arnobius (VII, 32) alludes to the same belief of the votaries of Isis: "Quid sibi volunt excitationes illae quas canitis matutini conlatis ad tibiam vocibus? Obdormiscunt enim superi remeare ut ad vigilias debeant? Quid dormitiones illae quibus ut bene valeant auspicabili salutatione mandatis?" 66. On the power of "barbarian names" see my _Mon. myst. Mithra_, I, p. 313, n. 4; Dieterich, _Mithrasliturgie_, pp. III ff. Cf. Charles Michel, _Note sur un passage de Jamblique_ (Melanges, Louis Havet), 1909, p. 279.--On the persistence of the same idea among the Christians, cf. Harnack, _Ausbreitung des Christ._, I, pp. 124 ff.; Heitmueller, _Im Namen Jesu_, Goettingen, 1903 (rich material). 67. Apul., _Met._, XI, 9. 68. _CIL_, II, 3386 = Dessau, _Inscr. sel._, 442; cf. 4423. 69. Apul., XI, 24; cf. Lafaye, pp. 118 ff. Porphyry (_De Abstin._, IV, 6) dwells at length on this contemplative character of the Egyptian devotion: The priests [Greek: apedosan holon ton bion tei ton theon theoriai kai theasei]. 70. In the Pharaonic ritual the closing ceremony seems to have taken place during the morning, but in the Occident the sacred images were exposed for contemplation, and the {237} ancient Egyptian service must, therefore, have been divided into two ceremonies. 71. Herodotus, II, 37. 72. Cf. Maspero, _Rev. critique_, 1905, II, p. 361 ff. 73. Apul., _Metam._, XI, 7 ff.--This festival seems to have persisted at Catana in the worship of Saint Agatha; cf. _Analecta Bollandiana_, XXV, 1906, p. 509. 74. Similar masquerades are found in a number of pagan cults (_Mon. myst. Mithra_, I, p. 315), and from very early times they were seen in Egypt; see von Bissing, _loc. cit._, n. 58, p. 228. 75. The _pausarii_ are mentioned in the inscriptions; cf. Dessau, _Inscr. sel._, 4353, 4445. 76. Schaefer, _Die Mysterien des Osiris in Abydos unter Sesostris III_, Leipsic, 1904; cf. Capart, _Rev. hist, relig._, LI, 1905, p. 229, and Wiedemann, _Melanges Nicole_, pp. 574 ff. Junker, "Die Stundenwachen in den Osirismysterien" (_Denkschrift Akad. Wien_, LIV) 1910. 77. In the Abydos mysteries, the god Thoth set out in a boat to seek the body of Osiris. Elsewhere it was Isis who sailed out in quest of it. We do not know whether this scene was played at Rome; but it certainly was played at Gallipoli where make-believe fishermen handled the nets in a make-believe Nile; cf. P. Foucart, _Rech. sur les myst. d'Eleusis_ (_Mem. Acad. Inscr._, XXXV), p. 37. 78. Cheremon in Porphyry, _Epist. ad Aneb._, 31: [Greek: Kai ta krupta tes Isidos epainei kai to en Abudoi aporreton deixei].