* Note: Consult du Dieu Serapis et son Origine, par J D.
Guigniaut, (the translator of Creuzer's Symbolique,) Paris, 1828; and in the fifth volume of Bournouf's translation of Tacitus .-- M.] [Footnote 37: Origo dei nondum nostris celebrata.

Aegyptiorum antistites sic memorant, &c., Tacit.Hist.iv.83.The Greeks, who had travelled into Egypt, were alike ignorant of this new deity.] [Footnote 38: Macrobius, Saturnal, l.i.c.7.Such a living fact decisively proves his foreign extraction.] [Footnote 39: At Rome, Isis and Serapis were united in the same temple.
The precedency which the queen assumed, may seem to betray her unequal alliance with the stranger of Pontus.

But the superiority of the female sex was established in Egypt as a civil and religious institution, (Diodor.Sicul.tom.i.l.

i.p.31, edit.

Wesseling,) and the same order is observed in Plutarch's Treatise of Isis and Osiris; whom he identifies with Serapis.] [Footnote 40: Ammianus, (xxii.