Chapter 40

, Note 6) as _stopping_, _bringing to an end_; not _destroying_, and still less _forgiving_.

5. _Through my being_ [or _because I am_] _smitten to the earth_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂.

⁂⁂ in this position, without a suffix or nominal subject, is not an auxiliary verb, but a particle of correlation, used when a cause, motive, or circumstance is asserted or implied in connection with a preceding statement.

Like all such particles, of which the function was originally only deictic, it is susceptible of very many shades of meaning, and it would be impossible in this place to do justice to a word so frequently occurring, especially in the hieratic papyri of a secular character. The following examples are only intended to illustrate its _grammatical_ use in our text.

The particle occurs three times before as many propositions at the beginning of