Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Animals

    Beetle

    animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages

    Pegasus · beetle · horse-beetle · the beetle · the scarab

    in the texts

    PeaceClassical · Greek

    A giant dung beetle that Trygaeus rides to heaven, jokingly addressed as Pegasus.

    LITTLE GIRL But what's your notion, papa, to harness a beetle and drive it to the gods?
    peace
    TRYGAEUS In Aesop's fables it was found to be the only winged thing that ever reached the gods.
    peace
    TRYGAEUS Come now, Pegasus, set off gladly, shaking the gold-bridled jingle of your bit, your ears pricked bright.
    peace

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    The scarab beetle, used as an Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for the sun.

    the other stars, on account of their oblique course, they likened to the bodies of serpents, but the sun to that of the beetle, since it moulds a round shape out of ox-dung and rolls it facing it.
    book 5