Goat
animal · 11 works · 12 mentions · 15 anchored passages
goat · goats · 100 goats · a goat · five-porridge sacrifice · goat's skin · kids · pañcaudana · the goat
spoken of as
2 expressionsGoats5 mentions
De Agri Cultura (Latin) · Laws (Greek) · Rigveda (Sanskrit) · On the Estate of Hagnias (Greek) · Works and Days (Greek)
Goat, sheep, and cattle dung, and likewise all other dung, keep carefully.
The goats1 mention
On the Estate of Hagnias (Greek)
for Theophon, his wife's brother, at his death adopted one of his daughters and left her his property, consisting of land at Eleusis worth two talents, 60 sheep, 100 goats, furniture, a fine horse which he rode when he was a cavalry commander, and all the rest of his goods and chattels.
in the texts
Rigveda
The goat that accompanies the sacrificial horse as Pūṣan's portion, and separately a speaking figure in the Ṛbhu riddle.
When men lead the horse around thrice in order at the proper season on the god-directed path of the oblation, Pūṣan's first share comes here, as the goat announces the sacrifice to the gods.
When they lead forward the gift of the one clothed in ornamental garment with golden trappings, seized by the mouth — the well-formed goat bleats, of all forms, and attains the dear portion of Indra and Pūṣan.
This goat, led forward before the swift horse, is the share of Pūṣan to be offered to all the gods.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Sacrificial goat born from clarified butter and cooked as the 'five-porridge sacrifice,' central to a rite said to exceed the Atirātra, Ukthya, and Agniṣṭoma and to legitimate remarriage.
by its glow it reaches the quarters — this goat, the five-porridge sacrifice.
the goat, the five-porridge sacrifice, is measured equal to the Dīrghasattra.
She who, having known a first husband, then finds another — those two, cooking the goat as the five-porridge offering, shall not be separated.
De Agri Cultura
Farm goats, whose dung is collected for manure.
Goat, sheep, and cattle dung, and likewise all other dung, keep carefully.
Stromata
Animal excluded from most sacrifice under the Law.
In this way too the Law does not sacrifice the goat, except in the single rite of the sending-away of evils, since pleasure is the metropolis of vice.
Vitae philosophorum
Animal cited for finding vine-shoots palatable, contrasted with human taste.
so to the goat vine-shoots are good to eat, to man they are bitter;
Works and Days
Young goats (kids), whose gelding is assigned to a particular day of the month.
Nor is the first sixth a fit day for a girl to be born, but a kindly for gelding kids and sheep and for fencing in a sheep cote.
De morbo sacro
Animal recurring as a dietary taboo, a seizure-symptom comparison, and as empirical evidence via veterinary dissection.
This you may ascertain in particular, from beasts of the flock which are seized with this disease, and more especially goats, for they are most frequently attacked with it.
But I am of opinion that (if this were true) none of the Libyans, who live in the interior, would be free from this disease, since they all sleep on goats’ skins, and live upon goats’ flesh;
For, if they imitate a goat, or grind their teeth, or if their right side be convulsed, they say that the mother of the gods is the cause.
On the Estate of Hagnias
One hundred goats listed among the livestock Theophon bequeathed to Stratocles's adopted daughter.
for Theophon, his wife's brother, at his death adopted one of his daughters and left her his property, consisting of land at Eleusis worth two talents, 60 sheep, 100 goats, furniture, a fine horse which he rode when he was a cavalry commander, and all the rest of his goods and chattels.
Laws
Animal used in the Athenian's analogy about judging goat-herding without understanding proper management.
Suppose that a man were to praise the rearing of goats, and the goat itself as a fine thing to own, and suppose also that another man, who had seen goats grazing without a herd and doing damage on cultivated land, were to run them down, and find fault equally with every animal he saw that was without a master or under a bad master,—would such a man’s censure, about any object whatsoever, be of the smallest value?
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Named in the animal-imitative congress list, both singly and as a collection.
, sporting in water, or the congress of an elephant with many female elephants, which is said to take place only in the water, the congress of a collection of goats, the congress of a collection of deer, take place in imitation of these animals.
In the same way can be carried on the congress of a dog, the congress of a goat, the congress of a deer, the forcible mounting of an ass, the congress of a cat, the jump of a tiger, the pressing of an elephant, the rubbing of a boar, and the mounting of a horse.
On Hunting
A domestic goat used as bait, tied atop a pillar of earth inside a pit trap to lure large predators such as lions and bears.
They tie up a goat and put it on the pillar in the evening, and pile wood round the hole without leaving an entrance, so that the animals cannot see what lies in front.