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


LXVII. HOW A RAPACIOUS, OR PROLIFIC, OR FURIOUS MAN.

When they would symbolize a rapacious, or prolific, or furious man, they delineate a CROCODILE, because it is prolific [?], and fertile in offspring, and furious. For if it fails in its intention of seizing any thing it rages in anger against itself.


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