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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com

LXXXV. HOW A KING THAT FLEES FROM FOLLY AND INTEMPERANCE.

When they would symbolise a king that flees from folly and intemperance, they delineate AN ELEPHANT 1 AND A RAM; for he flees at the sight of a ram.

Footnotes

138:1 Treb. cervum "a stag."