Greek Texts & Translations

ch. 144 2.144.1 Thus they showed that all those whose statues stood there had been good men, but quite unlike gods. 2.144.2 Before these men, they said, the rulers of Egypt were gods, but none had been contemporary with the human priests. Of these gods one or another had in succession been supreme; the last of them to rule the country was Osiris' son Horus, whom the Greeks call Apollo; he deposed Typhon, ^note and was the last divine king of Egypt. Osiris is, in the Greek language, Dionysus.