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


CXII. HOW A MAN PUNISHED FOR MURDER.

When they would symbolise a man punished for murder and repenting, they depict a PARTINACA (a fish with a sting in its tail,) CAUGHT ON A HOOK; for when caught it casts away the sting in its tail.


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