Note 140 — Chapter IX · MONSTROUS OR DEFECTIVE BIRTHS
J. M. Ashmand translation
One Latin translation has rendered this word “stammerers”; and, as Harpocrates was the god of silence, Ptolemy has probably used the epithet to signify defect of speech.
J. M. Ashmand translation
One Latin translation has rendered this word “stammerers”; and, as Harpocrates was the god of silence, Ptolemy has probably used the epithet to signify defect of speech.