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συγκυβεύειν. For the Egyptian fondness for dice cf. B. M. G. p. 87; they were buried in the tombs (ib. p. 178). For the bringing up of a token from the lower world cf. Maspero, Cont. Pop. pp. 118-19; Satni in the tomb wins the magic book after playing a game; the tale is preserved in a Ptolemaic papyrus.

Plutarch (de I. et O. c. 12) says that Hermes won from Selene (Isis), when playing at draughts, a seventy-second part of each day, and that out of these the five ‘intercalary days’ (cf. 4. 1 nn.) were made up.

αὐτημερόν. For the offering of the ‘new garment’ to the goddess cf. 1 Sam. vi. 7.

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