Deer
animal · 10 works · 13 mentions · 25 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.
"There herds of elephants and herds of deer roam on every side through the forest glades — you will see them, O Rāghava.
See how the forests seem to weep on every side, as the deer and birds draw near to their respective shelters and settle there.
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.
Cyropaedia
Wild game considered harmless and pursued by Cyrus in his first wild hunt.
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.
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.
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.
and it is still possible to catch hares and gazelles in their lairs.
And he asked me, So, stranger, did you perhaps notice a deer fleeing this way?
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.
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.
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.
The Deer-woman has the following three ways of lying down.
Woman also, according to the depth of her yoni, is either a female deer, a mare, or a female elephant.
In other words, the horse and mare, the bull and deer, form the high union, while the horse and deer form the highest union.
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.
On no account could they kill deer;
“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 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.
Young fawns are caught by this method;
So throw javelins at it from a distance.
For hunting fawns and deer use Indian hounds;