Fawn
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a young fawn · fawn
spoken of as
1 expressionThe fawn1 mention
Iliad (Greek)
the eagle dropped the fawn by the altar on which the Achaeans sacrificed to Zeus the lord of omens;
in the texts
Bacchae
A young deer used by the chorus as a simile for its own frenzied, fear-driven movement.
Shall I move my white foot in the night-long dance, aroused to a frenzy, throwing my head to the dewy air, like a fawn sporting in the green pleasures of the meadow, when it has escaped a fearful chase beyond the watchers over the well-woven nets, and the hunter hastens his dogs on their course with his call, while she, with great exertion and a storm-swift running, rushes along the plain by the r …
Iliad
Young fawn carried and dropped by the eagle as part of Zeus's omen.
the eagle dropped the fawn by the altar on which the Achaeans sacrificed to Zeus the lord of omens;