L. 1. Wherefore also of domestic animals they ap-

portion to him the least tractable — the ass; while of wild ones, the most savage — the crocodile and hippopotamus.
2. As to the ass, we have already given some ex- planation. At Hermes-city, however, as image of Typhon, they show us a hippopotamus on which stands a hawk' fighting a snake, — indicating by the hippo- potamus Typhon, and by the hawk power and rule, of which Typhon frequently possessing himself by force, ceases not from being himself in and throwing [others] into a state of disorder by means of eviL
3. Wherefore also when they make offerings on the seventh of the month Tybi,* — which [day] they call
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4. And at Apollo-city it is the custom for abeolntelj everyone to eat a piece of crocodile. And on one [particular] day they hunt down and kill as many [of them] as they possibly can, and throw them down right in front of the temple, saying that l^^on escaped Horus by turning himself into a crocodile, — considering as they do that all animals and plants and experiences that are evil and harmful are Tjphaas works and parts and movements.