Anūbis

, an Egyptian deity, represented under the form of a man with the head of a dog, because when Osiris went on his expedition against India, Anubis accompanied him, and clothed himself in a sheep’s skin. His worship was introduced from Egypt into Greece and Italy. He is supposed by some to be Mercury, because he is sometimes represented with a caduceus . Some make him brother of Osiris, some his son by Nepthys the wife of Typhon. Diodorus , bk. 1 .— Lucan , bk. 8 , li. 331 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 9 , li. 686 .— Plutarch , de Iside et Osiride .— Hero dot us , bk. 4 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 8 , li. 698 .