This judgment must have been a terrible blow to the religious faith and feelings of the country, for the "frog" was worshipped and held in high honor. To such an extent was this carried that "frogs" have been found carefully preserved and embalmed in the tombs at Thebes. The magicians by their arts only increased the general misery by adding to the number, and they did so after the land was swarming with them.
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