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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com


LXVII. HOW A MAN THAT CONCEALS HIS OWN DEFECTS.

When they would symbolise a man that conceals his own defects, they depict AN APE 1 MAKING WATER; for when he makes water he conceals his urine.

p. 128


Footnotes

127:1 Pier. mentions a reading, αἴλουρον "a cat."


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