Fox
animal · 9 works · 9 mentions · 9 anchored passages
foxes · fox · a fox · fiery fox · the fox · young fox
spoken of as
2 expressionsThe fox3 mentions
Law in a Free State (English) · Orations (Greek) · Olympian (Greek)
Even the fox in the fable would not have had his own tail cut off for the fun of seeing the other foxes in like plight.
Foxes2 mentions
De Rerum Natura (Latin) · On Hunting (Greek)
Cunning the foxes, flight the antlered stags.
in the texts
Stromata
The fox, used figuratively for cunning, deceptive men and contrasted with the Son of Man.
"The foxes have holes, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
Orations
Fox invoked to further deflate the runner's boast of swiftness.
For I think you could not even outstrip a fox.
De Rerum Natura
Foxes cited as the paradigm example of a species that survives through cunning.
Cunning the foxes, flight the antlered stags.
Olympian
A fox invoked in simile alongside lions to illustrate that creatures (and peoples) do not change their inborn nature.
For neither the fiery fox nor loud-roaring lions change their nature.
Lycurgus
A stolen fox concealed under a boy's cloak, which mauled him rather than let his theft be discovered.
The boys make such a serious matter of their stealing, that one of them, as the story goes, who was carrying concealed under his cloak a young fox which he had stolen, suffered the animal to tear out his bowels with its teeth and claws, and died rather than have his theft detected.
The Law of Torts
An animal classed as noxious, whose fresh pursuit was once supposed (wrongly) to justify entry on another's land.
At one time it was supposed that the law justified entering on land in fresh pursuit of a fox, because the destruction of noxious animals is to be encouraged;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The fox, named as one of the two animals typically comprised within a private warren's hunting rights.
” In practice it chiefly embraced hares and foxes.
Law in a Free State
The fox from the fable of the fox who lost his tail, invoked as an illustration in the critique of arguments for enforced equality.
Even the fox in the fable would not have had his own tail cut off for the fun of seeing the other foxes in like plight.
On Hunting
Animals linked to the Vulpine hound, to disrupted hare scent, and to predation on hares.
They are more plentiful in the islands than on the mainland, for in the majority of these there are no foxes to attack and carry off the hares and their young;
and it becomes confused when foxes have crossed it.
Do not let them take to pursuing foxes;