Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book I: LII. How They Represe...
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
To represent knowledge, they delineate an ANT, for
whatever a man may carefully conceal, this creature obtains a knowledge of: and not for this reason only, but also because beyond all other animals when it is providing for itself its winter's food, it never deviates from its home, but arrives at it unerringly.