Note 1003 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
In the former editions,
Now wears a garland an Egyptian god.—Warburton.
A bull was kept at Memphis by the Egyptians, and worshipped, under the name of Apis, as a god. Other oxen were sacrificed to him, which brought the bovine "victims" and the bovine "god" into direct contrast.