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

    The Atlas·Animals

    Boar

    animal · 9 works · 10 mentions · 14 anchored passages

    boar · boars · a boar · biting of the boar · some foaming boar · the boar · the fierce boars

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    1 expression

    Boars4 mentions

    Orations (Greek) · Shield of Heracles (Greek) · On Anger (Latin) · Cyropaedia (Greek)

    I, said the youth, run down a deer and stand my ground against a boar.
    oration 7

    in the texts

    CyropaediaClassical · Greek

    Dangerous animal used in a simile for Cyrus's reckless battle-joy.

    As a well-bred but untrained hound rushes recklessly upon a boar, so Cyrus rushed on, with regard for nothing but to strike down every one he overtook and reckless of anything else.
    book 1
    And they told him that bears and boars and lions and leopards had killed many who came close to them, but that deer and gazelles and wild sheep and wild asses were harmless.
    book 1
    And the deer leaped up skyward as if on wings, and the boars came charging at once, as they say brave men do in battle.
    book 1

    Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)Ancient · Sanskrit

    Animal listed as a form of wealth received by the sacrificer.

    Whatever imperishable wealth they have given us in the form of a boar, or a bed together with its cushion for us, or whatever vigor along with virile strength — may Agni the hotar make that well-offered.
    kanda 5

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Wild boars hunted in the region, cited as evidence of the young suitor's hunting skill.

    I, said the youth, run down a deer and stand my ground against a boar.
    oration 7
    and whenever they saw wolves, they pursued them for a while, but of boars or deer they took no thought.
    oration 7

    Shield of HeraclesClassical · Greek

    Boars depicted in fierce combat with lions in one of the animal scenes engraved on Heracles's shield.

    And both sides were roused still more to fight because they were angry, the fierce boars and the bright-eyed lions.
    shield of heracles
    For already a great lion lay between them and two boars, one on either side, bereft of life, and their dark blood was dripping down upon the ground;
    shield of heracles

    PelopidasImperial · Greek

    A boar said in local myth to have suddenly emerged and frightened the goddess near Tegyra.

    Moreover, the Ptoüm is near, from which, it is said, a boar suddenly came forth and frightened the goddess, and in like manner the stories of the Python and of Tityus are associated with the birth of Apollo in this locality.
    chapter 16

    RigvedaAncient · Sanskrit

    Boar appears in riddle imagery.

    the jackal has driven the boar out of the thicket.
    maṇḍala 10

    On AngerImperial · Latin

    Wild animal cited as an example of instinctive ferocity, first as a sign of visible rage, later as an example in the argument that beasts lack true anger.

    "The boar remembers not his wrath, nor the hind to trust her speed, nor the bears to charge the strong herds.
    book 1
    The boars foam at the mouth and whet their tusks by grinding;
    book 1

    The Kama Sutra of VatsyayanaAncient · English

    Named for the 'rubbing of a boar' congress and the 'biting of the boar' bite pattern.

    In the same way can be carried on the congress of a dog, the congress of a goat, the congress of a deer, the forcible mounting of an ass, the congress of a cat, the jump of a tiger, the pressing of an elephant, the rubbing of a boar, and the mounting of a horse.
    part ii
    The biting which consists of many broad rows of marks near to one another, and with red intervals, is called the "biting of a boar.
    part ii
    The following are the different kinds of biting, viz.
    part ii

    AeneidImperial · Latin

    A wild boar mentioned as possible quarry in Venus's huntress disguise.