Collected Works of Xenophon

months; Isis having found both the wheat and the barley; the fruit growing in the field wildly; and throughout the country with the other herbs; but ignored by men; and Osiris king of the underworld/civilization having devised the processing of these, and the fruit; joyfully; all changed the food; both because of the pleasure of the nature of the things found; and because it seemed to exist to their benefit; to abstain from the cruelty toward each other. And they bring a testimony of the finding of the mentioned fruits; the custom kept among them from ancient times; for still even now; at the harvest, the people having placed the first-reaped stalks; near the sheaf; and to call upon Isis; where indeed granting honor to the goddess; of the things found; according to the time of the finding from the beginning; to be present in some cities; and in the processions of Isis with the others to be carried; bottoms of wheat and barley; remembrances of the things from the beginning for the goddess; cleverly found; and they say Isis also placed laws; according to which men give to each other; the just; and to cease from the lawless violence and hubris; because of the fear from the punishment; wherefore also the ancient Greeks call Demeter the "Law-bringer" original: "Thesmophoros"; as the laws first having been set by her. And they say that those around Osiris founded a city in the Thebaid in Egypt; hundred-gated; which they indeed made eponymous of the mother; but the later generations; call it Diospolis City of Zeus; and some Thebes; and there is a dispute con-

cerning this city; not only among the authors; but also among the priests themselves in Egypt; for many record; not to have been founded by Osiris; but by some king; after many years; whom we also will record concerning him in the appropriate times; we record; and to have founded a temple of the parents; Zeus and Hera; worthy of note; in size and the remaining luxury; and two golden temples; of Zeus; the one greater; the heavenly; the one smaller; of the built temple of their father; whom some call Ammon deity of sun/air; and to construct also of the other gods; of the aforementioned; golden temples; to each of whom to grant honors; and to appoint the priests who take care; and to be preferred among him; and the doctors; those finding the art; for this method is useful; for which the Persian to nature; to owe thanks to them; and to anoint; and to prepare weapons; through which to kill the beasts; and working the earth; with ambition to tame the country; at the same time and the gold mania to construct the bell or musical instrument; through which to be pious toward the gods; being ambitious; and their pleasure; that through wine; and the Aphrodisian sensual/sexual pleasures of mortals; whence to be named; the feast of the child of Zeus; and to have the preference among the Egyptians; and from Osiris the wine; for which now to be named; and remember to know the poet Homer in the hymns; that it happened around Egypt; in which he says: "There is a Nysa, a highest mountain, a flower-filled forest, far from Phoenicia, near the streams of Egypt;" and they say he was found in the