dumb animals
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
beasts · birds · cows · hare · horse · mares · wild beasts
in the texts
Consolation to Marcia
Various animals (cows, mares, wild beasts, birds) cited as examples of intense but naturally brief grief for lost offspring, contrasted with human grief.
the lowing of cows is heard for a day or two, and no longer is that wild and frantic galloping of mares;
Letters to Lucilius
Non-rational creatures used throughout Letter 124 as the contrast case against which the rational good in man is defined.
In that which is not yet rational, the good cannot be then.
But how do they sin, if they obey the senses, that is, the judges of good and evil?
just as a horse remembers the road, when it has been brought to the beginning of it.