Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: CV. How a Man that ...
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
When they would symbolise a man that wastefully consumes both things that are requisite and useless, they delineate a POLYPUS; for after eating much and extravagantly, it lays by food in its holes, and when it has consumed that which is useful, it then throws away that which is useless.