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[44] ᾿εν δὲ τῇ Ἀβύδῳ τιμῶσι τὸν Ὄσιριν: ἐν δὲ τῷ ἱερῷ τοῦ Ὀσίριδος οὐκ ἔξεστιν οὔτε ᾠδὸν οὔτε αὐλητὴν οὔτε ψάλτην ἀπάρχεσθαι τῷ θεῷ, καθάπερ τοῖς ἄλλοις θεοῖς ἔθος. μετὰ δὲ τὴν Ἄβυδον Διὸς πόλις ἡ μικρά, εἶτα Τέντυρα πόλις: ἐνταῦθα δὲ διαφερόντως παρὰ τοὺς ἄλλους Αἰγυπτίους ὁ κροκόδειλος ἠτίμωται καὶ ἔχθιστος τῶν ἁπάντων θηρίων νενόμισται. οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλοι καίπερ εἰδότες τὴν κακίαν τοῦ ζῴου καὶ ὡς ὀλέθριον τῷ ἀνθρωπίνῳ γένει, σέβονται ὅμως καὶ ἀπέχονται: οὗτοι δὲ πάντα τρόπον ἀνιχνεύουσι καὶ ἐκφθείρουσιν αὐτούς: ἔνιοι δ᾽ ὥσπερ τοὺς Ψύλλους φασὶ τοὺς πρὸς τῇ Κυρηναίᾳ φυσικήν τινα ἀντιπάθειαν ἔχειν πρὸς τὰ ἑρπετά, οὕτω καὶ τοὺς Τεντυρίτας πρὸς τοὺς κροκοδείλους, ὥστε μηδὲν ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν πάσχειν ἀλλὰ καὶ κολυμβᾶν ἀδεῶς καὶ διαπερᾶν, μηδενὸς ἄλλου θαρροῦντος: εἴς τε τὴν Ῥώμην κομισθεῖσι τοῖς κροκοδείλοις ἐπιδείξεως χάριν συνηκολούθουν οἱ Τεντυρῖται: γενομένης τε δεξαμενῆς καὶ πήγματός τινος ὑπὲρ μιᾶς τῶν πλευρῶν, ὥστε τοῖς θηρίοις ἐκβᾶσι τοῦ ὕδατος ἡλιαστήριον εἶναι, ἐκεῖνοι ἦσαν οἱ τοτὲ μὲν ἐξέλκοντες δικτύῳ πρὸς τὸ ἡλιαστήριον, ὡς καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν θεατῶν ὁραθῆναι, ἐμβαίνοντες ἅμα εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ, τοτὲ δὲ πάλιν εἰς τὴν δεξαμενὴν κατασπῶντες. τιμῶσι δὲ Ἀφροδίτην: ὄπισθεν δὲ τοῦ νεὼ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης Ἴσιδος ἔστιν ἱερόν: εἶτα τὰ Τυφώνια καλούμενα καὶ ἡ εἰς Κοπτὸν διῶρυξ, πόλιν κοινὴν Αἰγυπτίων τε καὶ Ἀράβων. [p. 1137]
Strabo. ed. A. Meineke, Geographica. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.
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- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, TENTYRA or TENTYRIS (Dandara) Egypt.
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- LSJ, ἐκφθείρω
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