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

XLII. HOW THEY REPRESENT AN HOROSCOPUS [OBSERVER OF THE HOURS.]

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To signify an Horoscopus [observer of the hours], they delineate a MAN EATING THE HOURS, not that the man eats the hours, for that is impossible, but because food is prepared for men according to the hours.

Footnotes

64:1 This figure of a man with the emblem of life against his mouth is found; and seems to he the figure alluded to.