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Almost all the names of the gods came into Greece from Egypt. My
inquiries prove that they were all derived from a foreign source, and
my opinion is that Egypt furnished the greater number. For with the
exception of Neptune and the Dioscuri, whom I mentioned above, and
Juno, Vesta, Themis, the Graces, and the Nereids, the other
gods have been known from time immemorial in Egypt. This I assert on
the authority of the Egyptians themselves. The gods, with whose
names they profess themselves unacquainted, the Greeks received, I
believe, from the Pelasgi, except Neptune. Of him they got their
knowledge from the Libyans, by whom he has been always honoured, and
who were anciently the only people that had a god of the name. The
Egyptians differ from the Greeks also in paying no divine honours to heroes.
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