Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: CXV. How a Prolific...
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
When they would symbolise a prolific man, they depict the HOUSE-SPARROW; hic enim immodicâ irâ et copiâ seminis ductus septies in horâ fœminam init copiosum semen effutiens.