Asses
animal · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
asses · ass-driver's animals · 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.
De Agri Cultura
Pack-asses used for hauling dung and turning the mill.
three pack-asses harnessed to carry dung;
trappings and three pack-cloths for the asses;
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).
Cato the Younger
Pack animals gathered by Cato in great numbers to carry water for the march through Libya.
Cato therefore sent out thither by land in the winter season, having got together a great number of asses to carry water, and driving along with him many cattle.
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.