Think ye that what man values will inspire In minds celestial the same base desire?" The Egyptians, with an impudent prudence, interdicted, upon pain of hanging, that any one should say that their gods, Serapis and Isis, had formerly been men;
Egiptoarrek, zuhurtasun ausart batez, urkaren zigorpean debekatzen zuten inork esan zezan Serapis eta Isis, haien jainkoak, gizonak izan zirela behiala; eta denek zekiten izan zirela.