Horapollo
[4] This elder Horapollo wrote commentaries on Sophocles, Alcaeus of Mytilene and Homer, and a work (Ancient Greek: Τεμενικά, "Names for Temples") on places consecrated to the gods.[6] Though a very large proportion of the statements seem absurd and cannot be accounted for by anything known in the latest and most fanciful usage, there is ample evidence in both books, in individual cases, that the tradition of the values of the hieroglyphic signs was not yet extinct in the days of their author.In 1556, the Italian humanist Pierio Valeriano Bolzani published a vast Hieroglyphica at Michael Isengrin's printing press in Basel, which was originally planned as an exegesis of Horapollo's.The second part of book II treats animal symbolism and allegory, in the Greek tradition,[1] essentially derived from Aristotle, Aelian, Pliny, Artemidorus, and the Physiologus, etc.[citation needed] Editions by C. Leemans (1835) and A. T. Cory (1840) with English translation and notes; see also G. Rathgeber in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopädie; H. Schafer, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache (1905), p. 72.