Ἄπιδες
Apides
Translated by Catharine Roth10 Dec 2000Vetting: high11 revisions
Translation
They were gods honored amongst Egyptians, having a sign around the tail and the tongue, indicating that they are Apides. These are begotten from time to time, as they used to say, from the shining of the moon. For them they would celebrate a great festival and certain priests perform the ritual around the ox that is born, presenting a complete banquet to feed them sumptuously.1
*)/Apis : this Apis [is] an Egyptian god. Egyptians honor him with a moon, and this ox was sacred of [= to] the moon, just as Memphis [is] of the sun.2
Okhos having killed Apis wanted to hand him over to the butchers, so that they might cut him up for meat and prepare him for dinner.3
Okhos having killed Apis wanted to hand him over to the butchers, so that they might cut him up for meat and prepare him for dinner.3