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Plutarch's Essays and Miscellanies, Vol. 4 (of 5)

Note 16 — OF ISIS AND OSIRIS, OR OF THE ANCIENT RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF EGYPT.

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Plutarch derives Isis, in the usual uncritical way of ancient etymology, from the Greek root ἰσ—, found in ἴστε from οἶδα. (G.)

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