Excerpt from Fasti Temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendariae, Vol. 3 of 4 It is clearly to be inferred from the testimony of Pausa nias S that, in the Opinion of some of his contemporaries, the fable of Osiris and Isis itself was to be explained by the annual increase and decrease of the Nile: and it is on this principle, or some other closely connected with it, that Plu tarch has founded the ingenious and elaborate interpretation of the entire system of Egyptian mythology, which still sur vives in the most useful of his works, excepting his Lives his treatise De Iside et Osiride. Section ii.-connection of the phenomenon of the inundation with the Sothiacal period. Testimonies to the phenomenon. I. Its regularity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.