crocodile
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the crocodile · crocodiles · khampsae
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Cited as an example of an animal with instinctive, self-sufficient behavior from birth.
but tortoises and crocodiles, they say, when they have laid their eggs on land, bury them and then go away:
such as the crocodiles, the river-tortoises, and certain serpents, which, born away from the water, as soon as they are first able to crawl, make for the water.
Stromata
Egyptian sacred animal symbolizing both time and shamelessness in the described temple imagery.
Some of the Egyptians show the sun upon a ship, others upon a crocodile.
The Histories
The Nile crocodile, given extended zoological description and shown to be sacred in some Egyptian districts, reviled or hunted in others.
The nature of crocodiles is as follows.
Some of the Egyptians consider crocodiles sacred;
There are many different ways of crocodile hunting;