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, note 9.

8. _Grounds._ ⁂⁂⁂ is, technically, the superficial land measure corresponding to the _quarter_ of the Egyptian _arura_. The more general sense of the word (⁂⁂⁂⁂) is land enclosed and parted out for cultivation.

The very ancient magical text (Unas 302) speaks characterically of ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, the Hippopotamus who maketh his appearance at the garden (vineyard, field, &c. _Cf._ Psalm lxxx, 13).

In the great inscription published in Mariette’s _Denderah_, IV, 35, ⁂⁂⁂ is used, in a sense like that of the Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι, for a stone vessel in which seeds were sown for ritual purposes.

9. _Tiller._ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _bait_, or (as it is also written) _ȧbait_; see chapter 76 , note 1.

10. _Merit._ ⁂⁂ (sometimes written with ⁂ and other determinatives; Bekenranef adds ⁂) is the name of each of the two divine sisters, Isis and Nephthys, _see_