Note 144 — Chapter II · THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES
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Plutarch, de Is. et Os. c. XXVIII; Tacitus, Hist. IV. cap. 83, 84. Plutarch calls Timotheos the “exegete,” i.e. the interpreter or dragoman; so that his being a Eumolpid would seem to rest on the testimony of Tacitus only; but there were “exegetes” attached to the Eumolpids at Eleusis, see Foucart, Grds. Myst. pp. 79 sqq. Bouché-Leclercq, Hist. des Lagides, I. p. 118, thinks the names Timotheos and Manetho only cover the fact that the new religion was compounded from the Eleusinian and the Osirian cult.