Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: XXIX. How Infinite, or a Song, or Fate
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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
XXIX. HOW INFINITE, OR A SONG, OR FATE.
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SEVEN LETTERS INCLUDED WITHIN TWO FINGERS [RINGS?] 2 symbolize a song, or infinite, or fate.
Footnotes
106:1
XXIX. 1. The number 70 is very common on funereal tablets, and signifies "The Days of mourning." Sh. 676. The Egyptians still sing their lamentations, perhaps a relic of the funereal chant called, Maneros by Plutarch.
2. An amulet with some mystic signification.
106:2 De Pauw. sug. δακτυλίοις," rings."—Reuv. ἐντος δακτυλίου, "within a ring." Qy. Bent into the form of a ring.
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