[66] Lepsius, "Götterkreis," s. 35; "Briefe," 106-111.
[67] Diod. 1, 22.
[68] Plut. "De Isid." c. 20
[69] Plut. ib. 12-20; Strab. p. 803.
[70] Herod. 2, 59; Plut. loc. cit. 21; Diod. 1, 88.
[71] Busiris was the name of several towns in Lower Egypt; we must assume that the chief town of the district of this name was the scene of the festival. How the Greeks turned the name of this town into a king Busiris who used to slay strangers, I cannot explain. Eratosthenes in Strabo, p. 802, says: "There never was a king Busiris; the story may have been invented owing to the inhospitality of the inhabitants of Busiris;" and Diodorus observes: "It was not a king who was called Busiris, but the grave of Osiris was so named in the native language" (1, 88), which is near the truth.
[72] Herod. 2, 40, 42, 144.
[73] Plut. "De Isid." c. 35, 39.
[74] Plut. loc. cit. 12, 21, 42.
[75] Plut. loc. cit. c. 52. The inscriptions on the temple at Dendera prescribe a seven days' lamentation for Osiris, beginning on the 24th Choiak, and give full directions for the burial. Lauth, in the "Zeitschr. f. æg. Sprache," 1866, s. 64 ff.