The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

words is unambiguous. ⁂⁂⁂ signifies literally ‘standing,’ like _status_, or στάσις, and like those words also signifies position, situation, condition, circumstances, and also the point at issue, the question to be decided. A well known passage in Cicero’s _Topics_ (93, c. 35) may be quoted here: “Refutatio accusationis, in quae est depositio criminis, Graece στάσις dicitur, Latine _status_ appelletur: in quo insistit, quasi ad repugnandum congressa defensio.” Perhaps the passage in chapter 30 B, in which “the divine ministrants are said to deal with a man” according to his ⁂⁂ may have reference to the circumstances of his life. Chapters like this, however worthless in themselves, contain small fragments highly illustrative of the ideas of the Egyptians at an extremely remote period. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE XII. BOOK OF THE DEAD. [Illustration: