Frogs
animal · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
FROGS · cow-lowing one · frogs · goat-lowing one · the frog · the frogs · the green one · the marsh chorus · the spotted one
spoken of as
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Rigveda (Sanskrit)
the penis desires the two hairy clefts, the frog desires water — flow around for Indra, O Indu.
in the texts
Rigveda
Frogs whose croaking at the onset of the rains is likened to priestly chanting and who are praised as bestowers of wealth.
Lying still for a year like Brāhmaṇas observing their vow, the frogs have raised their voice set in motion by Parjanya.
When the heavenly waters came over him — like a dry bladder lying in a pool — the voice of the frogs, like the lowing of cattle and the lowing of cows with calves, comes together here.
One of them is cow-lowing, one is goat-lowing, one is spotted, and one is green.
Frogs
The titular chorus of marsh frogs who sing their croaking refrain as Dionysus is ferried across the underworld marsh.
FROGS But indeed we'll keep on croaking, as loud as our throat can gape, all day long.
DIONYSUS Nor will you me, ever — for I'll keep on croaking, even if I must all day, brekekekex koax koax, until I master you with my koax.
FROGS No — rather we'll cry the louder, if ever on sunny days we leapt through the galingale and the rushes, delighting in song with our many-diving strains, or, fleeing the rain of Zeus, in the depths underwater we sang our dappled dancing-tune with bubble-bursting plashings.
Orations
Animals cited by Diogenes as tender and bare yet able to endure cold and even live in cold water, refuting the claim that human tenderness precludes a hardy life.
And he pointed to the frogs and not a few other animals, much tenderer than man and much barer, and some of these able to endure not only the air, but to live even in the coldest water in winter.