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οὐκ ὅσιον: the reference is to Osiris; the mummy was made like him, in order that the dead man might obtain access to the realm where he ruled (cf. Maspero, i. 182 seq.); the dead man in fact became an Osiris. H. declines to mention the name ‘in regard to such a matter’, cf. c. 3 nn. for parallels to, and explanation of, this religious reserve; Wiedemann thinks H. omits the name ‘because he had no clear conception of Egyptian mysteries’. This is incredible; H. was familiar with hundreds of names in Egypt, and yet we are to suppose that he did not recognize that of Osiris, the most familiar of all.

δευτέρην: Diodorus says that the best embalming cost a talent of silver, the second twenty minae, the third very little; there were more varieties than he and H. describe.

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