[[74]] (Lucian) Asinus, 37. The same tale is amplified in Apuleius' Golden Ass, where the episode of these priests is given with more detail, in the eighth book. Seneca hints that a little blood might make a fair show; see his picture of the same, de beata vita, 26, 8.
[[75]] Tertullian, ad Natt. i, 10; Apel. 6. He has the strange fancy that Serapis was originally the Joseph of the book of Genesis, ad Natt. ii, 8.
[[76]] Valerius Maximus, i, 3, 4.
[[77]] Dio C. xlvii, 15.
[[78]] Tibullus, i, 3, 23 f. Cf. Propertius, ii, 28, 45; Ovid, A.A. iii, 635.
[[79]] Juvenal, vi, 522 f.
[[80]] Lucan, viii, 831, Isin semideosque canes.
[[81]] Ovid, Am. ii, 13, 7.
[[82]] Unless Isiaci coniectores is Cicero's own phrase, de Div. i, 58, 132.
[[83]] Cicero, Div. ii, 59, 121. For egkolmesis or incubatio see Mary Hamilton, Incubation (1906)