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


CXI. HOW A MAN THAT HAS COMMERCE WITH PERSONS OF ANOTHER TRIBE.

When they would symbolise a man that has commerce with persons of another tribe,

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they depict the LAMPREY; because it ascends out of the sea, and has commerce with the vipers, and straightway returns to the sea.


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