CV. How a Man that Wastefully Consumes Both Things that Are Requisite and Things That Are Not

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

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CV. HOW A MAN THAT WASTEFULLY CONSUMES BOTH THINGS THAT ARE REQUISITE AND THINGS THAT ARE NOT.

When they would symbolise a man that wastefully consumes both things that are requisite and useless, they delineate a POLYPUS; for after eating much and extravagantly, it lays by food in its holes, and when it has consumed that which is useful, it then throws away that which is useless.