XCVI. How an Old Man Dying of Hunger

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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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