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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com
When they would denote a man calmed by fire even during
anger, they portray LIONS AND TORCHES; for the lion dreads nothing so much as lighted torches, and is tamed by nothing so readily as by them.
132:1 Treb. igne castigatum "chastised by fire."
