Gazelles
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
gazelles · the eyes of the gazelles · the gazelles
in the texts
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The gazelles of the quoted hemistich, whose hoping eyes are not slaked, standing for the incapacity of expression to reach its object.
— So not all that the eyes of the gazelles have hoped for is slaked — (verse)
Cyropaedia
Harmless wild game in the hunting instruction.
And they told him that bears and boars and lions and leopards had killed many who came close to them, but that deer and gazelles and wild sheep and wild asses were harmless.