Apis
animal · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Apis the deity
Epaphus · that Egyptian bull · the bull Apis
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Egyptian bull“Apis”1 mention
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber (Latin)
We know also continent men, and indeed the attendants of that Egyptian bull;
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
Sacred ox worshipped as a god among the Egyptians, cited as an example of varying religious custom.
But now, if anyone could—in that chariot of Pacuvius, 'borne by winged serpents'—look down upon and survey with his eyes many and varied peoples and cities, he would see, first among that most uncorrupted people of the Egyptians, who keep in writing the memory of very many ages and events, that a certain ox is held a god, whom the Egyptians call Apis, and many other portents among them, and beasts …
Stromata
The sacred Apis bull of Egyptian religion, whose embalming and entombment is offered as the origin of the name Sarapis.
while Nymphodorus of Amphipolis, in the third book of the Customs of Asia, says that the bull Apis, having died and been embalmed, was laid in a coffin (soros) in the temple of the honoured deity, and that from this he was called Soroapis, and later, by a certain habit of the natives, Sarapis.
The Histories
The sacred bull Apis, kept and venerated in a dedicated court at Hephaestus' temple at Memphis, identified by Herodotus with the Greek Epaphus.
Having made himself master of all Egypt, he made the southern outer court of Hephaestus ' temple at Memphis, and built facing this a court for Apis, where Apis is kept and fed whenever he appears;
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
A bull venerated in Egyptian religion, cited as the object of devotion for continent male attendants.
We know also continent men, and indeed the attendants of that Egyptian bull;