Doves
animal · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
doves · aṭyār al-ḥamām · the bird · the down of doves · اطيار الحمام
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Doves that fill their crops with grain only to give it to their chicks, adduced among the animal cases of self-denying behaviour.
So too we see the birds of the dove fill their crops with grain and cast it down before their chicks, and many animals give themselves up to destruction as a ransom [61] for their young.
Protrepticus
Doves said to have flown toward painted doves because of their likeness, illustrating art's deceptive power.
Doves, indeed, flew to painted doves because of the likeness, and horses neighed at well-painted mares;
Ion
Temple doves that fly into the feast tent and drink from the poured wine; one of them dies in convulsions after tasting Ion's poisoned portion, exposing the plot.
While thus we were busied, comes a flight of doves and settles in the tent, for these dwell fearlessly in the courts of Loxias.
Now all the rest received no hurt from the god’s libation, but one that settled on the spot where the son newfound had poured his wine, no sooner had tasted thereof, than convulsions seized her feathered form and she went triad, and screaming aloud uttered strange unwonted cries;
De Rerum Natura
Birds cited for the iridescent, light-dependent colour-shifting of their neck plumage.
Thus in the sunlight shows the down of doves
Green-emerald blended with the coral-red.
Now it is ruddy with a bright gold-bronze,