Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: LI. How They Denote A Man Who Flees For Refuge to his Patron, and Receives No Assistance
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
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.