fferings
to the temple, and rejoice with no hesitating confidence. They do bring
their offerings to the temple. They add, too, an inscription; the
inscription contains {one} short line: "Iphis, a male, offers the
presents, which, as a female, he had vowed."

The following morn has disclosed the wide world with the rays {of the
Sun}; when Venus, and Juno, and Hymenaeus, repair to the social
fires[80]; and Iphis, {now} a youth, gains his {dear} Iaenthe.

[Footnote 65: _Phaestian land._--Ver. 668. Phaestus was a city of
Crete, built by Minos.]

[Footnote 66: _Anubis._--Ver. 689. This was an Egyptian Deity,
which had the body of a man, and the head of a dog. Some writers
say that it was Mercury who was so represented, and that this form
was given him in remembrance of the fact of Isis having used dogs
in her search for Osiris, when he was slain by his brother Typhon.
Other authors say, that Anubis was the son of Osiris, and that he
distinguished himself with an helmet, bearing the figure of a dog,
when he followed his father to battle.]

[Footnote 67: _Bubastis._--Ver. 690. Though she is here an
attendant of Isis, Diodorus Siculus represents her to have been
the same divinity as Isis. Herodotus, however, says that Diana was
worshipped by the Egyptians under that name. There was a city of
Lower Egypt, called Bubastis, in which Isis was greatly venerated.]

[Footnote 68: _Apis._--Ver. 690. This is supposed to have been
another name for Osiris, whose body, having been burned on the
funeral pile, the Egyptians believed that he re-appeared under the
form of a bull; the name for which animal was 'apis.']

[Footnote 69: _Who suppresses._--Ver. 691. This was the Egyptian
divinity Harpocrates, the God of Secresy and Silence, who was
represented with his finger laid on his lips.]

[Footnote 70: _Osiris._--Ver. 692. When slain by his brother
Typhon, Isis long sought him in vain, till, finding his scattered
limbs by the aid of dogs, she entombed them. As the Egyptians had
a yearly festival, at which they bewailed the loss of Osiris, and
feigned that they were seeking him, Ovid calls that God, 'Nunquam
satis quaesitus,' 'Never enough sought for.']

[Footnote 71: _Foreign serpent._--Ver. 693. This is, most
probably, the asp, a small serpent of Egypt, which is frequently
found represented on the statues of I