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But where Typhon falls in and touches upon her
extreme parts, it is there she appears melancholy, and is
said to mourn, and to look for certain relics and pieces of
Osiris, and to array them with all diligence; she receiving
all things that die and laying them up within herself, as
she again brings forth and sends up out of herself all such
things as are produced. And those proportions, forms,
and effluxes of the God that are in the heaven and stars
do indeed continue always the same; but those that are
sown abroad into mutable things, as into land, sea, plants,
and animals, are resolved, destroyed, and buried, and afterwards show themselves again very often, and come up anew
in several different productions. For which reason the
fable makes Typhon to be married to Nephthys, and Osiris
to have accompanied with her by stealth. For the utmost
and most extreme parts of matter, which they call Nephthys and the end, is mostly under the power of the destructive faculty; but the fecund and salutary power dispenses
but a feeble and languid seed into those parts, which is all
destroyed by Typhon, except only what Isis taking up doth
preserve, cherish, and improve.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 4.
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