Note 73 — ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. BOOK THE THIRD.
Thomas Taylor translation
The more mystical cause why the Egyptians worshipped animals, appears to me to be this, that they conceived a living to be preferable to an inanimate image of divinity. Hence, they reverenced animals as visible and living resemblances of certain invisible powers of the Gods.—See Plutarch’s Treatise on Isis and Osiris.