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^A.noTi, expresses the corresponding letter. Hence we have 

 fioT-^e, the eye-lashes, the track being put before the pullet for the 

 purpose, as usual, of filling a void place. G. wonderfully fetches 

 out "afterwards," and cunningly conceals from the eyes of his 

 readers, that, by means of Ch.'s discovery of" the key to Egyp- 

 tian literature," it is impracticable to decipher the following three 

 words, Nos. 227, 22S, 229. 



227. The name of the eye-lashes, Revne-qwi, cilia, consists of 

 the word -^coi, hair, and Revtie, i.e. a'on^, cingere, cingulum — the 

 Greek ^coi/Y^, cingulum — and hence Rektie--4coi signifies properly 

 a girdle of hairs, corresponding with eye-lashes. From the T. B. 

 iS, 33, and 19, II, we learn that the same figure, a little differ- 

 ently delineated, was called escn, supra (see PL xxxi. 441, a), 

 where it is the participle of a verb (2cnev^-HO-rT). The latter is 

 put beyond question by No. 347, where the same word (eye-lash) 

 signifies 2CH&.0, suppressor. Accordingly, this eye is not an ideo- 

 logic representation, but, as Clement says, '/.opcoXoYel dla iiifXTjacv 

 — it pronounces mimetically, and yet syllabically. 



228. called R&.pjv, expresses kr in numerous places, and here the 

 word *ip, pupilla, the next to the eye-lashes. G. A. 44, 115. 



229. The cofter, ap (qab), cupa, ni3 (kafah), cavus, 22^. (gabab), 

 signifies kb (159, 444, b), hence the nose, 23 (gab), o-fi (in (Tfi-iyA., 

 naris), literally curvitas (nasus), the next limb to the eye-lashes 

 and the pupil. 



230 represents, as we have seen (Nos. 90, 41, 14, 9; G. ^i^. 

 79, 377), (5/, and hence the word ovojt, the Greek o^'joto^^ ear. 

 Peyron's Dictionary presumed otcot to signify the fat of the ear, 

 the earlap ; but ot^cot, as the Greek o'joro;;^ the corrupted ou^, 

 evinced, was the real name of the ear. G. , joining the salad with 

 the ansated bowl (No. 231), translates "thy majesty," viz. accord- 

 ing to the great Champollionist B. 



231. The ram-headed man with the ostrich feather, mcvoj, as 

 we have seen (PL i. a^a^ \ Nos. 58, 122, etc.) signifies the mighty 

 El, and with the suffix k (tuus) thy mighty god. G., not know- 

 ing what to do with the ram-headed figure, omits to mark by 

 " " that he could not solve the Champollionistic riddle. 



232. likewise omitted by G., expressed by the figure of the 

 skull (K&.pA.), the word fjj (gal), i.e. too, furthermore, as the con- 

 text shows. 



233. The viper being termed 2ceT (see annotations to 48, and 



