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and of furrendering their country to him ; inflead thereof, Inda- 

 thyrfus, their king, fent him a bird, a moufe, a />'og, and Jive 

 arroivs. Darius would fain have conflrued thefe into a fub- 

 miffion ; faying, the moufe is bred in the earth, the frog lives 

 in water, and the bird may be compared to a korfe, and by the 

 arrows they feem to deliver their whole force into my hands. 

 But Gobrias was of opinion that the Scythian gave them to 

 underfland by fuch a meffage, that unlefs the Perfians could 

 afcend into the air like a bird, or conceal themfelves in the 

 earth like mice, or plunge into the fens like frogs, they fliould 

 inevitably perifh by the arrows. 



We are told by Horus Apollo, that by the hawk, the Egyp- 

 tians fignified God, fublimity, excellence, humiHty, wind, blood, 

 vidlory, the foul, &c. ; by the dog, a fcribe, a prophet, fpleen, 

 fmelling, laughter, fneezing^ an officer, a judge, for reafons 

 which appear as ridiculous as the meaning was precarious, 



I CANNOT think that lb wife a people as the Egyptians would 

 regifter their public ads in fo vague and uncertain a manner, 

 and that we want the key to explain their fymbols in a more 

 fatisfadlory manner. That key appears to me to have been the 

 fynonima of their language. As in the monument of Lufk man 

 fignifying the hand, implied alfo propittoufnefs ; man alfo fignifies 

 ftrength ; hence the hand, in another attitude, implies power. 

 " Du Celte man, fort, elevation, parfait en bont6, &c. &c. vinrent 

 " man, la main, lat. manus," &g. &c. * 



* GeEELIN, Dia. Etynol. Lai. p. II24. 



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