asses
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Asses · draught-beasts · wild asses
in the texts
Letters
Animals referenced in the allusion to Saul's search that led to his kingship.
Asses are lost, that a man may become king of Israel.
Against Phaenippus
Pack animals used to transport wood from the farm.
six asses carry off wood the whole year through, and he receives more than twelve drachmae a day).
Ad Nationes
Donkeys, both the animal in Tacitus's origin legend for the ass-god slander and an animal pagans themselves worship via Epona.
Truly you worship whole asses, with their Epona too, and all draught-beasts and cattle and beasts, which you consecrate alike with their mangers.