LI. How They Denote A Man Who Flees For Refuge to his Patron, and Receives No Assistance
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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com
LI. HOW THEY DENOTE A MAN WHO FLEES FOR REFUGE TO HIS PATRON, AND RECEIVES NO ASSISTANCE.
When they would denote a man who flees for refuge to his patron, and receives no assistance, they depict a SPARROW AND AN OWL; for the sparrow when pursued betakes itself to the owl, and being near it is seized.
p. 118
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