Deer
animal · 11 works · 14 mentions · 26 anchored passages
deer · a deer · the deer · Mrigi · beasts of various kinds · calves · does · excellent deer · fawns · female deer
spoken of as
2 expressionsthe deer2 mentions
Letters (Greek) · Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)
for even now he has hastened to your Godliness (to use David's words) as a deer, cooling a great and unbearable thirst at a fresh and pure spring.
hind“deer”1 mention
On the Nature of the Gods (Latin)
and that the hinds, a little before bringing forth, thoroughly purge themselves with a certain herb which is called seselis.
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Forest deer appearing throughout the journey, both as a symbol of the grieving forest and as game hunted for food.
Those two, having slain four great forest animals there — a boar, a ṛśya antelope, a spotted deer, and a large deer — took the pure meat and, being hungry, quickly went at the proper time to a tree for shelter.
See how the forests seem to weep on every side, as the deer and birds draw near to their respective shelters and settle there.
"There herds of elephants and herds of deer roam on every side through the forest glades — you will see them, O Rāghava.
Cyropaedia
Wild game considered harmless and pursued by Cyrus in his first wild hunt.
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.
And when he came to level ground, he threw his spear and brought down the deer—a fine, large quarry.
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.
Letters
Image of a deer seeking water, applied to Eupraxius's eagerness to reach Eusebius.
for even now he has hastened to your Godliness (to use David's words) as a deer, cooling a great and unbearable thirst at a fresh and pure spring.
On the Nature of the Gods
Cited as an example of an animal that self-medicates with an herb before giving birth.
and that the hinds, a little before bringing forth, thoroughly purge themselves with a certain herb which is called seselis.
Orations
Wild deer hunted by the huntsmen for meat and skins, central to the opening episode and recurring as a staple resource.
but I came upon a deer that had just fallen down the cliff at the very edge of the surf, beaten by the waves, still gasping.
There is a little in brine, but the rest dry in the smoke, not much worse than that — hams of swine and of deer, and other noble meats.
And he asked me, So, stranger, did you perhaps notice a deer fleeing this way?
Barlaam and Josaphat
Used in a psalm simile for the soul's longing for God.
As the deer longs for the springs of waters, so my soul longs for God, the strong, the living God.
Titus Flamininus
Animal invoked in the mocking epigram as a comparison for Philip's fleeing spirit.
And the bold spirit that Philip had displayed was gone;
Chrestomathy
Animal shot by Agamemnon and later substituted for Iphigenia on the altar.
When the fleet had assembled for the second time at Aulis, Agamemnon, having shot a deer while hunting, declared that he surpassed even Artemis.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Smallest female size-class ('Mrigi'), whose positions are described; also names an animal-imitative congress.
, sporting in water, or the congress of an elephant with many female elephants, which is said to take place only in the water, the congress of a collection of goats, the congress of a collection of deer, take place in imitation of these animals.
Woman also, according to the depth of her yoni, is either a female deer, a mare, or a female elephant.
On the occasion of a "high congress" the Mrigi (Deer) woman should lie down in such a way as to widen her yoni, while in a "low congress" the Hastini (Elephant) woman should lie down so as to contract hers.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Deer, called venison when classified as a beast of the forest, the principal royal game whose protection underlies the whole forest system.
“The head of a hart recently dead was found in the wood of Henry Dawney at Maidford by the King’s foresters.
The evidence, stored up as a result of the work of the smaller courts, supplemented by the Rolls of the Regard, was laid before the justices, who summarily judged “pleas of the vert,” and “of the venison.
On no account could they kill deer;
On Hunting
The genus of game covered in this section: hinds and their fawns hunted in spring by ambush, and adult deer (stags and hinds) trapped with caltrops or run down in summer heat.
Caltrops are set for deer in the mountains, about meadows and streams and glades, in alleys and cultivated lands that they frequent.
If the deer is caught by the fore-foot it will soon be taken, as it hits every part of its body and its face with the clog during the run;
The hinds trample on the hounds in their efforts to defend their fawns;