LXII. How a People Obedient to Their King
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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com
LXII. HOW A PEOPLE OBEDIENT TO THEIR KING.
To denote a people obedient to their king, they depict a BEE, for this is the only one of all creatures which has a king whom the rest of the tribe of bees obey, as men serve their king. And they intimate from the honey's - - - - - - from the force of the creature's sting - - - - that
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[paragraph continues] - - - - should be both lenient and firm in - - - - and administration.
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Champollion interprets this as 'King of an obedient people;' Sharpe, as 'King of Upper and Lower Egypt.'—Sh. 417. 419.Ask PRATIBHA about this text
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