 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1820 - 892 pages
...according to Diodorus of Sicily. Some suppose her to be tlie same as lo, who was changed into • cow, and restored to her human form in Egypt, where she taught agriculture, and governed the peeple with mildness and equity, for which reason she received divine honors after death.... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1822 - 840 pages
...1601. Isis, a celebrated deity of the Egyptians, daughter of Saturn and Rhea, according to Diodorns of Sicily. Some suppose her to be the same as lo, who was changed into a cow, and restored to her human form in Egypt, where she taught agriculture, and governed the people with... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...according to Diodorus of Sicily. Some suppose her to he tbe same as lo, who was changed into a cow, and restored to her human form in Egypt, where she taught agriculture, and governed the people with mildness and equity, for which reasons she received divine honours after death.... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1823 - 892 pages
...according to Diodorus of Sicily. Some suppose her to lu> the same as lo, who was changed into a cow, and restored to her human form in Egypt, where she taught agriculture, and governed the people with mildness and equity, for which reason she received divine honor* after death.... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1827 - 938 pages
...regarded it like the sun, which they called Osiris, as one of the sources of the inundation of the Nile.] Some suppose her to be the same as lo, who was changed into a cow, and re stored to her human form in Egypt, where she taught agriculture, and governed the people with... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1852 - 800 pages
...according to Oiodorus of Sicily. Some suppose her to be the same »s lo, who was changed into a cow, and restored to her human form in Egypt, where she taught agriculture, ;m(1 governed the people with mildness and equity, lor which reasons «he received divine honours after... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pages
...one of the principal deities of the Egyptians, daughter of Saturn and linea, according to Diodorus of Sicily. Some suppose her to be the same as lo,...Jupiter, and restored to her human form in Egypt, where sue taught agriculture, and received divine honours after death. lais was the Venus of Cyprus, the... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1862 - 1134 pages
...— the sister and wife of Osiris. She a supposed by some to be the same as lo, changed into a cow, and restored to her human form in Egypt, where she...agriculture, and received divine honours after death. Osiris and Isis reigned conjointly in Egypt, till the rebellion of their brother Typho, by whom Osiris... | |
 | Thomas Preston (lexicographer.) - 1880 - 396 pages
...rainbow. I'sis. A celebrated deity of the Egyptians, daughter of Saturn and Rhea, according to Diodorus of Sicily. Some suppose her to be the same as lo, who was changed into a cow, and restored to her human form in Egypt, where she taught agriculture, and governed the people with... | |
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Isis, a celebrated deity of the Egyptians, daughter of Saturn and Rhea, according to Diodorus of Sicily. Some suppose her to be the same as lo, who was changed into a cow, and restored to her human form in Egypt, where she taught agriculture, and governed... 