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


XCVI. HOW AN OLD MAN DYING OF HUNGER.

When they would symbolise an old man dying of hunger, they delineate AN EAGLE WITH HIS BEAK EXTREMELY HOOKED; for as he grows old his beak becomes extremely hooked, and he dies of hunger.


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