[345] Manual of Mythology, p. 346. London, 1873.
[346] Often spoken of as the Hercules of the Egyptians.
[347] History of the Egyptian Religion, p. 154.
[348] See Diodorus Siculus, i, 25; and Tacitus, xiv, 81.
[349] Says Gibbon: “Alexandria, which claimed his peculiar protection, glorified in the name of the City of Serapis.” The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. xxviii.
[350] See his Essay, p. 50.
[351] Egypt of the Past, p. 15. London, 1881.
[352] The capital of Lower Egypt.
[353] Uarda, vol. i, p. 203.
[354] History of the Egyptian Religion, p. 94. London, 1882. Tiele remarks that Imhotep was not only called Asklepios by the Greeks, “but likewise the Eighth, thus showing that they regarded him as one of the Kabirs” (p. 95). I may add that the worship of the Kabirs, in the character of cosmic deities, was early established in the region where Memphis stood. Bunsen, indeed, identifies Ptah and his seven sons with the Kabirs. See Egypt’s Place, etc., vol. iv, p. 217.