Falsafa

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

    The Atlas·Animals

    Birds and dogs

    “scavengers of the corpse”

    animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages

    birds · birds of the seashore · dogs and birds · dogs of the sea

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Dogs and birds1 mention

    Ajax (Greek)

    Instead he shall be cast forth somewhere on the yellow sand to become forage for the birds of the seashore.
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    in the texts

    Letters to LuciliusImperial · Latin

    Scavenging birds and sea-creatures ('dogs of the sea') invoked as agents that might consume an unburied corpse.

    " Whether thrown out, the body lies a prey to the birds, or is consumed, "given as spoil to the dogs of the sea," what is that to one who is nothing?
    letter 92

    AjaxClassical · Greek

    Scavenging animals imagined as desecrating the unburied body.

    Instead he shall be cast forth somewhere on the yellow sand to become forage for the birds of the seashore.
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    Send on my behalf some messenger with news of my downfall to Teucer, so that he may be the first to raise me once I have fallen on this sword and made it newly-wet, and so that I am not first spotted by some enemy and cast out and exposed as prey to the dogs and birds.
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