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


CI. HOW A MAN WHO IS IMPUDENT AND QUICK-SIGHTED.

When they would symbolise a man who is impudent 

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and quicksighted, they depict A FROG; for it has no blood except in the eyes alone, and they call those who have blood in those parts impudent: and hence the poet sings, "Drunkard with eyes of dog and heart of stag."


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