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Περὶ Ἴσιδος και Ὀσίριδος

Περὶ Ἴσιδος και Ὀσίριδος Plutarch
10 The military class had their seals engraved with the form of a beetleThe Egyptian scarab, or sacred beetle. Cf. Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxx. 13 (30).; for there is no such thing as a female beetle, but all beetles are male. Cf. 381 a, infra. The idea that all beetles are male was very common in antiquity; Cf., for example, Aelian, De Natura Animalium, x. 15; Porphyry, De Abstinentia, iv. 9. They eject their sperm into a round mass which they construct, since they are no less occupied in arranging for a supply of foodThey are σκατοφάγοι. than in preparing a place to rear their young.

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