Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: LXI. How They Denote a Man Who Sickens Under the Reproach of Accusation
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
When they would symbolise a man who is reproached with accusations and thence falls sick, they delineate a BASILISK; for he kills those that approach him with his breath.