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116. "The hawk is an emblem of the sun and of light, on account of his rapid flight and his soaring into the highest regions of the air where light abounds. A fish is the emblem of aversion, and the Hippopotamus of violence, because it is said to kill its father and to ravish its mother.
Hence, says Plutarch, the emblematical inscription of the temple of Sais, where we see painted on the vestibule, 1.
A child, 2.
An old man, 3.
A hawk, 4.
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