Book Ii. Xxv. How Death
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"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo", tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840],
Xxv. How Death.
A Night Raven signifies "death;" 2 for it suddenly pounces
p. 104
upon the young of the crows by night, as death suddenly overtakes men.
Footnotes
103:2 Qy. Erebus? The Hebrew word , EREB, signifies either p. 104 Erebus darkness, or the Nightraven, and it appears by Damascius, that the Sidonians substituted this bird as an emblem of Erebus.--An. Frag. p. 319.
"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo", tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840],
Xxv. How Death.
A Night Raven signifies "death;" 2 for it suddenly pounces
p. 104
upon the young of the crows by night, as death suddenly overtakes men.
Footnotes
103:2 Qy. Erebus? The Hebrew word , EREB, signifies either p. 104 Erebus darkness, or the Nightraven, and it appears by Damascius, that the Sidonians substituted this bird as an emblem of Erebus.--An. Frag. p. 319.
