Fawn
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a young fawn · fawn
spoken of as
1 expressionin 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 …