Collected Works of Xenophon

a?

...to consider [it] a daily festival. For [they] count the year [as] one thousand two hundred and ten years of the gods; of whom the sun completes its orbit in more than six hundred years, and the others rule for thirty or twenty months. As in the times still [recorded] by the Egyptians, not only those occurring according to each's periods, but also what fortune each brings, perhaps a great good also similar to the Greeks, and because [of this] the things for others will be beautiful. And [they] are called according to the virtues [derived] from themselves. But they do not ignore [it]; some Egyptians mythologize according to the age of Isis, but much more [than] the things mythologized by the Greeks, [they] say the whole earth is inhabited by them. For [they] campaigned against the furthest India; [and] toward the surrounding world; because some of them say [they] have come [to the regions] above toward the north. And the land does not have [inhabitants] because [it is] the earth; and still the parts of each [in] strength, because [they] were in battle. And many deeds, but at the end only [those] saying [they are] from Themis, [and] not to be brought forth, but much more. And a multitude [of things] is illustrious among them; because [they] make the [most] worthy [ones] the leaders; which is most illustrious, to sacrifice the whole air. And [it] is said that a portion becomes among them from these; whence [they] considered a woman [to be of] great-sized courage. For which [there] is a law for them: to give Osiris the brother [in marriage] to the order of the daughters; from whom we say the [people] of the same nation are named; because [they] are eager to cohabit with a man. And after these things, the most illustrious Osiris died; and the rest [are to] participate [in] the law.

b?

And [to] drive [it] away completely and [that] no cause for them [might] become [a reason] to make all food. And because of these causes, [they] decreed the various sacrifices and honors to Isis and to the queen of the whole nation. And among the Indians the woman [is] in power over the men; [and] upon the marriage contract, those who marry agree to obey the woman [who is] being married, [giving her] the leadership. [And] I also [know] that except for the writers, [they] declare that the tombs of these gods are in Arabia; [and] to perceive and [to] weep for the son [as] being hated, calling [him] by name; which [they] also give [as] another hypothesis by glory. Of inscriptions in the sacred letters: "I am Isis." And they say [there is] an inscription on the stele [in the land of] Nysa, which [she] also found from the god. "And whatever [the] sea has a name, no one is able to close. I am the eldest daughter of the youngest god Cronus. I am the wife and sister of King Osiris. I am the first [who] found fruit for humans. I am the mother of King Horus. I am the one [who] rises in the star in the Dog [Sirius]. For me the city [was] built. Rejoice, rejoice, Egypt, who nursed me." And it is said that upon Osiris it is inscribed: "My father is Cronus, the youngest of all the gods; and I am Osiris the King, who campaigned against every land, until we say the desert place is inhabited, and those inclined toward the north, up to the springs of the river Ister [Danube], and again toward the other parts up to the ocean. And I am the eldest son of Cronus, and [a] sprout from a beautiful and noble [source], from whom [there is] no related seed; I was born in each day. [There is no] place of the inhabited world in which I have not arrived, teaching..."
C?