Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Serapis"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Serapis \Se*ra"pis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ???, ???.] (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.
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