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Then again, they depict Osiris by means of an eye and a sceptre, Cf. 354 f, supra. the one of which indicates forethought and the other power, much as HomerHomer, Iliad, viii. 22. in calling the Lord and King of all Zeus supreme and counsellor appears by supreme to signify his prowess and by counsellor his careful planning and thoughtfulness. They also often depict this god by means of a hawk; for this bird is surpassing in the keenness of its vision and the swiftness of its flight, and is wont to support itself with the minimum amount of food. It is said also in flying over the earth to cast dust upon the eyes of unburied dead Cf. Aelian, De Natura Animalium, ii. 42, and Porphyry, De Abstinentia, iv. 9.; and whenever it settles down beside the river to drink it raises its feather upright, and after it has drunk it lets this sink down again, by which it is plain that the bird is safe and has escaped the crocodile, Ibid. x. 24. for if it be seized, the feather remains fixed upright as it was at the beginning.