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Webster 1913 Edition


Serapis

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Se-ra′pis

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Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK], [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK].]
(Myth.)
An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.