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


p. 81

LX. HOW A VIGILANT KING.

And otherwise to denote a vigilant king, they depict the SERPENT (UPON THE WATCH), and in the place of the king's name they depict a watcher: for he is the guardian of the whole world; and the king ought to be vigilant everywhere.


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