priest of the goddess Isis.—Dioscorides tells us, that they bore a branch of sea-wormwood in their hands instead of olive. They sung the praises of the goddess twice a day, viz. at the rising of the sun, when they opened her temple; after which they begged alms the rest of the day, and returning at night, repeated their orisons, and shut up the temple.

Such was the life and office of the Isis; they never covered their feet with anything but the thin bark of the plant papyrus, which occasioned Prudensius and others to say they went bare-footed. They wore... ISL

ISIDORUS, called DAMIATENSIS, or PELUSIOTA, from his living in a solitude near that city, was one of the most famous of all St Chrysostom's disciples, and flourished in the time of the general council held in 421. We have 2012 of his epistles in five books. They are short, but well written, in Greek. The best edition is that of Paris, in Greek and Latin, printed in 1638, in folio.