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Sera'pis

Σάραπις), or SARA'PIS, an Egyptian divinity, the worship of which was introduced into Greece in the time of the Ptolemies. Apollodorus (ii. 50.1) states that Serapis was the name given to Apis after his death and deification. (Comp. Callim. Ep. 39, and Isis.)

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