Apis was a god who appeared at intervals in the shape of a calf with a white mark on his brow.

His appearance was the occasion of general rejoicing.
Cambyses slew the Apis which came in his time, and for this cause became mad, as the Egyptians said.
(18) That is, by Achoreus, who had just spoken.
(19) Compare Ben Jonson's "Sejanus", Act ii., Scene 2: -- The prince who shames a tyrant's name to bear Shall never dare do anything, but fear; All the command of sceptres quite doth perish If it begin religious thoughts to cherish; Whole empires fall, swayed by these nice respects, It is the licence of dark deeds protects E'en states most hated, when no laws resist The sword, but that it acteth what it list." (20) He was drowned in attempting to escape in the battle on the Nile in the following autumn.
(21) Dionysus.

But this god, though brought up by the nymphs of Mount Nysa, was not supposed to have been buried there.
(22) See Book VII., line 20.
(23) This warning of the Sibyl is also alluded to by Cicero in a letter to P.Lentulus, Proconsul of Cilicia.

(Mr.Haskins' note.

See also Mommsen, vol.iv., p.