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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com
p. 113
XLII. WHAT THEY DESIGN BY DEPICTING A MULE.

When they would symbolise a barren woman, they delineate a MULE; for this animal is barren, quod matricem rectam non habet.
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