Zeus
Certainly, it is disgraceful the way these Egyptians go on. At the same time, Momus, there is an occult significance in most of these things; and it ill becomes you, who are not of the initiated, to ridicule them.Momus
Oh, come now: a God is one thing, and a person with a dog’s head is another; I need no initiation to tell me that.Zeus
Well, that will do for the Egyptians; time must be taken for the consideration of their case. Proceed to others.Deorum concilium. Lucian. Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator). Medford, MA, USA. 2023-08-01.
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