Falsafa

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

    The Atlas·Animals

    Colt

    animal · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    colt · Colts · a herd of colts · foal · his own colt · unbroken colt

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    1 expression

    Colts2 mentions

    Laws (Greek) · Economics (Greek)

    For your civic organization is that of an army rather than that of city-dwellers, and you keep your young people massed together like a herd of colts at grass:
    book 2

    in the texts

    On the MysteriesClassical · Greek

    Animal from which Andocides says he was thrown.

    Later, however, I was thrown from a colt of mine in Cynosarges;
    on the mysteries

    LawsClassical · Greek

    Young horses used as a simile for how Cretan and Lacedaemonian youths are massed together and reared without individual attention.

    For your civic organization is that of an army rather than that of city-dwellers, and you keep your young people massed together like a herd of colts at grass:
    book 2
    none of you takes his own colt, dragging him away from his fellows, in spite of his fretting and fuming, and puts a special groom in charge of him, and trains him by rubbing him down and stroking him and using all the means proper to child-nursing, that so he may turn out not only a good soldier, but able also to manage a State and cities—in short, a man who (as we said at the first) is more of a …
    book 2

    EconomicsClassical · Greek

    Young horses used as an example of obedience training.

    Colts, for example, learn to obey the horsebreaker by getting something they like when they are obedient, and suffering inconvenience when they are disobedient, until they carry out the horsebreaker’s intentions.
    chapter 13

    On the Art of HorsemanshipClassical · Greek

    A young, not-yet-ridden horse whose body, gentleness, tractability, and early habituation determine its promise.

    Still, care must be taken that the colt is gentle, tractable, and fond of man when he is sent to the horse-breaker.
    chapter 2
    For judging an unbroken colt, the only criterion, obviously, is the body, for no clear signs of temper are to be detected in an animal that has not yet had a man on his back.
    chapter 1
    The colt that is longest in the shanks at the time he is foaled makes the biggest horse.
    chapter 1