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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com
When they would symbolise a man that eats unsparingly
of another's substance, and afterwards consumes his own, they depict a POLYPUS; for, if he be in want of food from other things, he eats his own feelers.
