Note 240 — Chapter XII · EGYPT.

The “pious Egyptians” offered resistance, as Macrobius, Sat. i. 7, 14, reports, but tyrannide Ptolemaeorum pressi hos quoque deos (Sarapis and Saturnus) in cultum recipere Alexandrinorum more, apud quos potissimum colebantur, coacti sunt. As they thus had to present bloody sacrifices, which was against their ritual, they did not admit these gods, at least into the towns; nullum Aegypti oppidum intra muros suos aut Saturni aut Sarapis fanum recepit.