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


p. 117

L. HOW A MAN WHO IS WEAK AND PERSECUTED BY ANOTHER.

When they would symbolise a man that is weak and persecuted by a stronger, they delineate a BUSTARD AND A HORSE; for this bird flies away whenever it sees a horse.


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