LVI. How a King who Keeps Himself Apart, and Shews No Mercy to Delinquencies

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

p. 120

LVI. HOW A KING WHO KEEPS HIMSELF APART, AND SHEWS NO MERCY TO DELINQUENCIES.

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When they would symbolise a king who keeps himself apart, ² and shews no mercy to delinquencies, ³ they depict an EAGLE; for he builds his nest in desert places, and flies higher than all birds.

Footnotes

120:1

Signifies Pharaoh.

120:2 ἰδιάζω, "to live apart," also "to revenge oneself."

120:3 πταῖσμα, "a calamity in war," also "a fault."