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. The _Stream_ which is so conspicuous but cannot be reached is the Milky Way, and the _Leg_ is the constellation Cassiopeia in the Northern Sky.

2. _Stoop_, ⁂⁂⁂. This comparison occurs repeatedly in the Pyramid Texts, and others of the early periods.

3. _Achmiu Stars_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ so _Ab_, giving another proof that the word is to be taken as a _noun_, and not as a _negative_.

4. See chapter 30A, on “The Crocodile of the West who lives on the Setting Stars.”

5. So _Ab_, but perhaps wrongly. I dare not fill up the lacunæ of this text.

6. _Fellow-citizens._ The translation here is necessarily conjectural. But I understand by _fellow-citizens_ (συμπολῖται) the dwellers of that _city_ of which the deceased says, in