. “He turned not a deaf ear to the truth, through the terrors of his Eye;” that is, “the terrors of his Eye” were not used for the perversion of Justice. But what is meant by his “Eye”? M. Pierret (in his Inscr. inédites du Louvre, pt. 1, p. 96) suggested the ‘Eye of Horus.’ I think it has reference to the position of Ptahmes as
. He was ‘the King’s Eye,’ ὁ βασιλέως ὀφθαλμός,[[127]] and had in consequence, an unlimited power of defeating justice had he been so inclined.