* "Hieroglyphics of Horapollo", tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840],
p. 108
Xxxiii. What By An Ichneumon.
When they would represent "a man that is feeble, and unable of himself to help himself, but who does so by the aid of others", they delineate an Ichneumon. For this animal, when it spies a serpent, does not at once attack it, but by its noise calls others to its assistance, and then attacks the serpent.