Ass
animal · 6 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the ass · ass · asses · the beast · the donkey
spoken of as
1 expressionthe ass2 mentions
Letters (Greek) · The Law of Torts (English)
'The ox,' it says, 'knew its owner'—so then, by your account, the ox knew the substance of its master;
in the texts
Stromata
The ass, used proverbially for those incapable of appreciating fine things.
" But if knowledge does not belong to all, then writings are, for the many, "a lyre to an ass," as the proverb-makers say.
"The ox knew its owner, and the ass the manger of its master;
"With the innocent man you shall be innocent, and with the elect you shall be elect, and with the perverse you shall be perverse.
Letters
Animal cited in the semantic argument about 'knowing'.
'The ox,' it says, 'knew its owner'—so then, by your account, the ox knew the substance of its master;
Phaedrus
The animal actually being described in Socrates's mock speech of praise, though called a horse, illustrating deceptive rhetoric.
but if I tried to persuade you in all seriousness, composing a speech in praise of the ass, which I called a horse, and saying that the beast was a most valuable possession at home and in war, that you could use him as a mount in battle, and that he was able to carry baggage and was useful for many other purposes—
Phaedrus. Then it would be supremely ridiculous.
The Law of Torts
The plaintiff's fettered donkey, turned loose on a highway and run over by the defendant's wagon in the celebrated 'donkey case,' Davies v. Mann.
There the plaintiff had turned his ass loose in a highway with its forefeet fettered, and it was run over by the defendant’s waggon, going at “a smartish pace.
Law in a Free State
Asses listed among beasts of burden in the analogy about labour displacement.
if there were no horses, asses, oxen, other beasts of burden, or engines, it is clear that men would be required to do the lifting, carrying, and pulling themselves, just as they did under the Pharaohs who built the Pyramids.
Anabasis
Animal invoked in a proverb about wantonness and fatigue.
And Xenophon said, Well, really, with weather of the sort you describe and provisions used up and no chance even to get a smell of wine, when many of us were becoming exhausted with hardships and the enemy were at our heels, if at such a time as that I wantonly abused you, I admit that I am more wanton even than the ass, which, because of its wantonness, so the saying runs, is not subject to fatigue.