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Home Home Ancient Egypt The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous XVIII. How Punishment

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XVIII. How Punishment

XVIII. How Punishment

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Preface
Title Page and Front Matter
I. How They Denote Eternity
II. How the Universe
III. How A Year
IV. How A Month
V. How the Current or Civil Year
VI. What They Signify by Delineating a Hawk
VII. How They Indicate the Soul
VIII. How Ares and Aphrodite (Hor and Hathor)
IX. How Marriage
X. How an Only Begotten
XI. What They Imply by Depicting a Vulture
XII. How They Denote Hephæstus [Phthah]
XIII. What They Intimate When They Depict a Star
XIV. What They Denote When They Pourtray A Cynocephalus
XV. How They Denote the Renovation of the Moon
XVI. How the Two Equinoxes
XVII. How They Denote Intrepidity
XVIII. How They Denote Strength
XIX. How They Denote a Watchful Person
XX. How the Terrible
XXI. How the Rising of the Nile
XXII. How They Designate Egypt
XXIII. How a Man That Has Not Travelled Abroad
XXIV. How an Amulet [Protection]
XXV. How They Denote an Imperfect Man
XXVI. How an Opening
XXVII. How Speech
XXVIII. How Dumbness
XXIX. How a Voice From a Distance
XXX. How Ancient Descent
XXXI. How Taste
XXXII. How Delight
XXXIII. How Sexual Intercourse
XXXIV. How a Soul Continuing a Long Time Here
XXXV. How a Man Returning Home After a Long Time From a Foreign Land
XXXVI. How They Denote the Heart
XXXVII. How Education
XXXVIII. How the Egyptian Letters
XXXIX. How a Sacred Scribe
XL. In What Manner They Represent Government, or a Judge
XLI. How They Signify the Bearer of the Shrine
XLII. How They Represent an Horoscopus [Observer of the Hours.]
XLIII. How They Denote Purity
XLIV. How They Intimate a Thing Unlawful, or an Abomination
XLV. How They Represent the Mouth
XLVI. How Manliness Combined with Temperance
XLVII. How Hearing
XLVIII. How the Member of a Prolific Man
XLIX. How They Denote Impurity
L. How a Disappearance
LI. How Impudence
LII. How They Represent Knowledge
LIII. How They Represent a Son
LIV. How a Fool
LV. How They Represent Gratitude
LVI. How an Unjust and Ungrateful Man
LVII. How One Who is Ungrateful to His Benefactors
LVIII. How an Impossibility
LIX. How a Very Bad King
LX. How a Vigilant King
LXI. How They Designate a Ruler of the World
LXII. How a People Obedient to Their King
LXIII. How a King Who Governs a Part of the World
LXIV. How One Who Governs All Things
LXV. How a Fuller
LXVI. How a Month
LXVII. How a Rapacious, or Prolific, or Furious Man
LXVIII. How Sunrise
LXIX. How Sunset
LXX. How They Shadow Forth Darkness
Introduction
I. What They Signify By Depicting A Star
II. What by an Eaglet
III. What by Two Feet Conjoined and Advancing
IV. What by the Heart of a Man Suspended by the Windpipe
V. How They Denote the Front of Battle
VI. What by a Finger
VII. Quid Penis Manu Compressa
VIII. How They Denote Disease
IX. How the Loins of a Man
X. How They Symbolize Permanency and Safety
XI. How Concord
XII. How a Crowd
XIII. How Admeasurement
XIV. How a Woman Pregnant
XV. How Wind
XVI. How Fire
XVII. How a Work
XVIII. How Punishment
XIX. How Impiety
XX. How an Hour [Execration?]
XXI. How Anything of Long Duration
XXII. How Aversion
XXIII. How a Future Act
XXIV. How a Murderer, or the Blood of a Crocodile
XXV. How Death
XVI. How Love
XXVII. How the Most Ancient
XXVIII. How a Siege
XXIX. How Infinite, or a Song, or Fate
XXX. What One Line Bent Over Another Signifies
XXXI. What They Denote by Depicting a Swallow
XXXII. What by a Black Dove
XXXIII. What by an Ichneumon
XXXIV. What They Denote by Engraving Origanum (Wild Marjoram) for a Hieroglyphic
XXXV. What by a Scorpion and Crocodile
XXXVI. What by a Weasel
XXXVII. What by a Hog
XXXVIII. How Immoderate Anger
XXXIX. How an Old Minstrel
XL. How They Denote a Man Who Lives with his Wife
XLI. What They Intimate by Pourtraying a Blind Beetle
XLII. What They Design by Depicting a Mule
XLIII. How They Denote a Woman who has Brought Forth Female Infants
XLIV. How They Denote Wasps
XLV. How A Woman Who Miscarries
XLVI. How a Man Who Cures Himself by an Oracle
XLVII. How a Swarm of Gnats
XLVIII. How a Man That Has No Bile, But Receives It From Another
XLIX. How a Man Who Dwells Securely in a City
L. How a Man Who is Weak and Persecuted by Another
LI. How They Denote A Man Who Flees For Refuge to his Patron, and Receives No Assistance
LII. How They Represent a Weak Man That is Audacious
LIII. How a Woman Suckling and Bringing Up Her Children Well
LIV. How a Man Fond of Dancing
LV. How a Mystic Man
LVI. How a King who Keeps Himself Apart, and Shews No Mercy to Delinquencies
LVII. How the Great Cyclical Renovation
LVIII. How One Who is Fond of His Father
LIX. How a Woman That Hates Her Husband
LX. How They Denote Children Plotting Against Their Mothers
LXI. How They Denote a Man Who Sickens Under the Reproach of Accusation
LXII. How a Man that is Burnt with Fire
LXIII. How a Blind Man
LXIV. How a Man That Never Stirs Out
LXV. How a Man who is Injured by Self-Inflictions
LXVI. How a Man Who Has Been Succeeded in His Property by a Son Whom He Hated
LXVII. How a Man That Conceals His Own Defects
LXVIII. How One Who Hears With More Than Usual Acuteness
LXIX. How an Unsettled Person
LXIX. How a Man Overcome by his Inferiors
LXX. How a Man Who Overcomes His Private Enemy
LXXII. How a Man Who Passes Fearlessly Through the Evils Which Assail Him
LXXIII. How a Man Annoyed by his Private Enemies
LXXIV. How a Man Who is Fearful Lest Accidents Should Happen Unexpectedly to Himself
LXXV. How a Man Calmed by Fire During Anger
LXXVI. How a Feverish Man Who Cures Himself
LXXVII. How a Man who Becomes Steady at Last After his Former Excesses
LXXVIII. How a Man Whose Temperance is Easily Changed
LXXIX. How a Slayer of Sheep and Goats
LXXX. How They Denote a Man Eating
LXXXI. How They Denote a Rapacious and Inactive Man
LXXXII. How a Woman That Has Brought Forth Once
LXXXIII. How a Man Who is at First Deformed
LXXXIV. How a Powerful Man, and One That Discerns What Things Are Right
LXXXV. How a King That Flees From Folly and Intemperance
LXXXVI. How a King that Flees from a Trifler
LXXXVII. How a Man That is Quick in his Movements, But Who Moves Imprudently and Inconsiderately
LXXXVIII. How a Man That is Providing His Own Tomb
LXXXIX. How a Man that has Lived to a Proper Age
XC. How a Man who Conceals his Depravity within Himself
XCI. How a Man Deceived by Flattery
XCII. How the Presage of a Plentiful Vintage
XCIII. How a Man Having Received Injury from the Grape
XCIV. How a Man that Guards Himself from the Plots of His Enemies
XCV. Quomodo Pædicationem
XCVI. How an Old Man Dying of Hunger
XCVII. How a Man Living Perpetually in Motion, and Agitation of Mind
XCVIII. How a Man Skilled in Celestial Matters
XCIX. How a Man Who Through Want Dismisses His Own Children
C. How a Man Who is Tardy in Moving With His Feet
CI. How a Man Who is Impudent and Quick-Sighted
CII. How a Man Unable to Move Himself
CIII. How a Man Hostile to All
CIV. How a Man Who Saves Many in the Sea
CV. How a Man that Wastefully Consumes Both Things that Are Requisite and Things That Are Not
CVI. How a Man the Ruler of his Tribe
CVII. How a Man who is Married to a Woman
CVIII. How a Man that Does Not Provide For Himself
CIX. How a Man Addicted to Gluttony
CX. How a Man that Vomits Up His Food
CXI. How a Man That Has Commerce With Persons of Another Tribe
CXII. How a Man Punished for Murder
CXIII. How a Man that Eats Unsparingly of Another's Substance
CXIV. How a Man That is Eager After Good
CXV. How a Prolific Man
CXVI. How a Man That is Constant, and Uniformly Tempered
CXVII. How a Man Previously Deranged in His Intellects, but Afterwards Becoming Sane
CXVIII. How a Man Who Distributes Justice Impartially to All
CXIX. How a Man That is Fond of Building
Appendix
Index of the Abbreviations Used
Special Pages: Errata

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XVIII. How Punishment

XVIII. HOW PUNISHMENT.

A cow's HORN when depicted signifies punishment.

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XVIII. The Horns are used as the syllable "An," as in Anepo.

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