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Nov 19, 2008
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Apis

in Egyptian mythology, is the bull symbolical of the god Apis. It was not suffered to live more than twenty-five years, when it was sacrificed and buried in great pomp. The madness of Cambysës is said to have been in retribution for his killing a sacred bull.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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