Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: CXIII. How a Man that Eats Unsparingly of Another's Substance
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
When they would symbolise a man that eats unsparingly
of another's substance, and afterwards consumes his own, they depict a POLYPUS; for, if he be in want of food from other things, he eats his own feelers.