XLIV. How They Intimate a Thing Unlawful, or an Abomination

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XLIV. HOW THEY INTIMATE A THING UNLAWFUL, OK AN ABOMINATION.

To denote a thing unlawful, or an abomination, they delineate a FISH, because the feeding upon fish is considered in the sacred rites as abominable, and a pollution: for every fish is an animal that is a desolator [laxative as food?], and a devourer of its own species.

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65:1

Clemens states that the fish denotes hatred: and, according to Leemans, it is found in some inscriptions with that signfication.

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