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H. proceeds to another borrowing, that of processions, &c.

There are many points of resemblance between the religious festivals of Greece and of Egypt. An important part of these in the latter country were the processions (πομπαί) in which the image of the deity was taken to visit (προσαγωγαί) another deity; others explain προσαγωγή=πρόσοδος, i.e. the procession to the temple with sacrifices, &c. For the whole cf. Claudian (de Quar. Hon. Cons. 570 seq.): “Sic numina Memphis
In vulgus proferre solet: penetralibus exit
Effigies, ...
... Nilotica sistris
Ripa sonat.

de\ a)/ra=the more usual δ᾽ ὦν, i.e. whether the divination be like or not, ‘at all events’ the festivals have much in common.

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