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The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo

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How a Man Whose Temperance is Easily Changed

When they would symbolise a man whose temperance is easily changed and inconstant, they depict a BULL WITH HIS RIGHT KNEE BOUND ROUND; for if you bind him by a fetter on his right knee, you will find him follow 1. And the bull is always assumed as a symbol of temperance, because it never approaches the cow after conception.

Footnotes
134:1 Treb. from το?τον, sic enim non coit, "for thus he holds no intercourse."