17 examples of apis in sentences

For the same reason he would not enter the presence of Apis, declaring that he was "accustomed to worship gods and not cattle."

The statues frowned: Apis bellowed a lament and shed tears.

The sacred bull Apis was wreathed with its garlands; there were niches for water, to place it among tombs; it was carved in the capitals of columns; it was represented on plates and vases; the sculptures show it in many sacred uses, even as a burnt-offering; Isis holds it; and the god Nilus still binds a wreath of water-lilies around the throne of Memnon.

Procession of the Sacred Bull Apis-Osiris After the painting by E.F. Bridgman.

Thus Apis, the sacred bull of Memphis, was the representative of Osiris; the cow was sacred to Isis, and to Athor her mother.

Such were the Apis bulls, of which a succession was maintained at Memphis in the temple of Phtha, or, according to others, of Osiris.

Apis a bed, genu a knee, Vulcanus, Doctor Dee: Viginti minus usus est mihi.

This sentiment is wide-spread among our people, and perhaps it is not too fanciful to predict that it will some day expand itself to a cultus like that of the Egyptian APIS, or, more properly, the Stork of Japan.

It seems to me, that, in this matter, the undertakers, digging a little too deep below the surface of the present age, have thrown out some of the mystical and grotesque remains of a very antique religious faith, which look as singular just now to the eyes of common people as would an Egyptian temple with its sacred Apis in Broadway, or a Sphinx on Boston Common.

PTAH-SEKER is the dual god formed by fusing Seker, the Egyptian name of the incarnation of the Apis Bull of Memphis, with Ptah. PTAH-SEKER-AUSAR was a triune god who, in brief, symbolized life, death, and the resurrection.

That Argive, Apis the Thessalian Knight, Myself, and gallant Cleonicus, supped Within my grounds.

'Ergo Apis Matinæ More modoque Grata Carpentis thyma per laborem Plurimum'

however, appeared as an exception: this tree, which grows on the centre of the beach, where it is remarkably conspicuous, appeared to have resisted the dry state of the season; it was in full leaf, and covered with a profusion of flowers, which attracted a variety of insects, particularly of the genera apis, vespa, and sphex; and among them a beautiful green-coloured chrysis.

The Apis, the Ibis, the Crocodiles, the sacred Beetles, have brought down to us unchanged all the characters that superstition hallowed in those early days.

Appius is selected to talk about bees because his name has some echo of the sound of apis, the word for bee.]

SERAPIS, an Egyptian divinity of partly Greek derivation and partly Egyptian, and identified with Apis.

No more with harp and sistrum Music calls To wanton rites within Astarte's halls, The priests forget to mourn their Apis slain, And bear Osiris' ark with pompous train; Gone is Serapis, and Anubis fled, And

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