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The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo

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What by a Scorpion and Crocodile

When they would symbolise one enemy engaging with another equal to himself, they depict a SCORPION AND A CROCODILE. For these kill one another. But if they would symbolise one who is hostile to, and has slain another, they depict a CROCODILE or a SCORPION; and if he has slain him speedily, they depict a CROCODILE, but if slowly, a SCORPION, from its tardy motion.

Footnotes
XXXV. This seems to hare some astronomical allusion. The Crocodile was one of the Vahans of the Sun, and the year began with Scorpio. It is not an uncommon hieroglyphic.