Plutarch De Iside et Osiride 14

Frank Cole Babbitt (Translator)

De Iside et Osiride. Plutarch. Frank Cole Babbitt (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1936.

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Current edition Perseus

Isis and Osiris (English) (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. V. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).)

Editions (1)
Περὶ Ἴσιδος και Ὀσίριδος Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol II. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889.) — 14 focus
Translations (1)
Of Isis and Osiris, or of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt. Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. IV. Goodwin, William W., editor; Baxter, William, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.) — 14 focus

Notes on the current edition

Isis and Osiris

1. Cf. Herodotus, ii. 91 and 156, and Diodorus, i. 18. 2.
2. Cf. E. Harrison, Classical Review, vol. xl. pp. 6 ff.
3. Cf. Aelian, De Natura Animalium, x. 23.
4. The word kopto, strike, cut, is used in the middle voice in the derived meaning mourn ( i.e. to beat oneself as a sign of mourning). Occasionally the active voice also means cut off, and from this use Plutarch derives the meaning deprive.
5. Cf. Dio Chrysostom, Oratio xxxii. p. 364 d (660 Reiske), and Aelian, De Natura Animalium, xi. 10, ad fin.
6. Nephthys; Cf. 366 b, 368 e, and 375 b, infra.
7. Cf. Diodorus, i. 87. 2.