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1 We have an account of Apis in Herodotus, B. iii. c. 28; also in Pomponius Mela, B. i. c. 9; and in, Ælian, Anim. Nat. B. xi. c. 10.—B.
2 "Quem cantharum appellant." According to Dalechamps, "So called from the blackness of the colour, and its resemblance to a beetle." Lemaire, vol. iii. p. 516. He refers the reader to a further account in B. xxx. c. 30.—B.
3 From the Greek,θαλαμὸι, "bed-chambers."
4 Tacitus, Ann. B. ii. c. 69, gives an account of the sickness of Germanicus after his return from Egypt, but does not refer to the circumstance here mentioned.—B.
5 The "goblet." See B. v. c. 10.
6 Seneca, Quæst. Nat. B. iv. c. 2, gives an account of this ceremony, but does not refer to the birth of Apis.—B.
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