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


XCVII. HOW A MAN LIVING PERPETUALLY IN MOTION, AND AGITATION OF MIND.

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When they would symbolise a man living perpetually 

p. 145

in motion, and agitation of mind, and not even remaining quiet during meals, they depict THE YOUNG ONES OF A CROW 1 [a crow with its young]; for whilst she flies she feeds her young.


Footnotes

144:1 Al. om.

145:1 De Pauw sug. and Treb. reads κορώνην νεοσσοῖς, a crow with its young.


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