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


LXXXIX. HOW A MAN THAT HAS LIVED TO A PROPER AGE.

When they would symbolise a man that has lived to a proper age, they depict a DYING CROW; for she lives an hundred years according to the Egyptians; and a year among the Egyptians consists of four (of our) years.


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