Lucian, De Syria dea, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 7

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[7] εἰσὶ δὲ ἔνιοι Βυβλίων οἳ λέγουσι παρὰ σφίσι τεθάφθαι τὸν Ὄσιριν τὸν Αἰγύπτιον, καὶ τὰ πένθεα καὶ τὰ ὄργια οὐκ ἐς τὸν Ἄδωνιν ἀλλʼ ἐς τὸν Ὄσιριν πάντα πρήσσεσθαι. ἐρέω δὲ καὶ ὁκόθεν καὶ τάδε πιστὰ δοκέουσι. κεφαλὴ ἑκάστου ἔτεος ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ἐς τὴν Βύβλον ἀπικνέεται πλώουσα τὸν μεταξὺ πλόον ἑπτὰ ἡμερέων, καί μιν οἱ ἄνεμοι φέρουσι θείῃ ναυτιλίῃ· τρέπεται δὲ οὐδαμά, ἀλλʼ ἐς μούνην τὴν Βύβλον ἀπικνέεται. καὶ ἔστι τὸ σύμπαν θωῦμα. καὶ τοῦτο ἑκάστου ἔτεος γίγνεται, τὸ καὶ¹ ἐμεῦ παρεόντος ἐν Βύβλῳ ἐγένετο· καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐθεησάμην Βυβλίνην.

De Syria dea. Lucian. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Medford, MA. Perseus 4.0.

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Περὶ τῆς Συρίης Θεοῦ (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 4. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925 (printing).)

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The Goddesse of Surrye Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 4. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925 (printing).) — 7 focus

[7] Natheles, ther ben somme men of Byblos that seyn Osiris of Egypte lyeth enterred amonges hem, and the doel and the cerimonyes ben alle made in mynde of Osiris in stede of Adoon.¹ And I schalle seye you the cause whi this semeth hem trewe. Eech yeer an heed cometh from Egypte to Byblos, heaa that passeth the see betwene in seven iorneyes, and the windes dryven it, be governaunce of the Goddes, and it torneth not asyde in no wyse but cometh all only to Byblos. And this is hoolyche merveylle. whoty It befalleth everyche yere, and befel that tyme that I was in Byblos, and I saughe the heed, that is of Byblos.²

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Περὶ τῆς Συρίης Θεοῦ

1. καὶ τοῦτο —τὸ καὶ N: not in ΓΕ. In both old MSS. the first hand left a space in which these words were entered long afterward.

Lucian De Syria dea 7

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