. This word is closely connected, and was so from the first, with
‘seize.’ The best commentary upon it may be derived from the legal terms usucapio, saisine, seisin. The Sovereign Lord of Egypt is in our current legal phrase “seized of the Two Earths,” that is of the whole Universe, North and South.
[57]. There is a lacuna here in the only MS. containing the text. The dialogue continues through the next line of the original.
[58]. Naville, La Litanie du Soleil, p. 49 and 55, with the plates corresponding.
[59]. In the 64th invocation.
[60]. Lefébure Tombeau de Seti I, pl. XVII.