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

LXXVII. HOW A MAN WHO BECOMES STEADY AT LAST AFTER HIS FORMER EXCESSES.

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When they would denote a man who after his former 

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excesses at length becomes steady, they portray a BULL BOUND ABOUT BY A WILD FIG BRANCH; for if when violent he is bound with a wild fig branch, he becomes gentle.

Footnotes

133:1 Treb. renders, novissima calamitate castigatum, "chastised by a very recent calamity."