{"collection":"egy","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/egy/hh/hh034.htm","path":"egy/hh/hh034.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/egy/hh/hh034.htm","text":"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]\nWhen they would represent delight they depict the NUMBER 16; 1 for from this age men\nbegin to hold commerce with women, and to procreate children.\n52:1 Leemans very happily suggests, from the following passage in Pliny. Nat. Hist. V. 9., that the symbol had some reference to the rising of the Nile: \"Justum incrementum est cubitorum sedecim . . . . . . . in duodecim cubitis famem sentit; in tredecim etiamnum esurit; quatuordecim cubits hilaritatem adferunt; quindecim securitatem; sedecim delicias.\"","title":"Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book I: XXXII. How Delight","type":"page"}