XLIII. How They Denote a Woman who has Brought Forth Female Infants

Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com

XLIII. HOW THEY DENOTE A WOMAN WHO HAS BROUGHT FORTH FEMALE INFANTS.

When they would symbolise a woman who has brought forth female infants first, they delineate a BULL INCLINING TOWARDS THE LEFT: and again if male infants, then they delineate a BULL inclining to the right. Is enim ex congressu discedens, si ad lævam

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conversus fuerit, genitam esse fœminam indicat, si ad dexteram marem.