Hare
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A hare caught by the young suitor at night and given as a courtship gift to the huntsman's daughter.
And there followed with him his son, a youth not ignoble, carrying a hare.
And did you take this hare?
not even if many cries should be borne from all sides, and many scents from fruits and flowers should be interwoven, and a great multitude of men and other animals should appear, and tracks, some of horses, some of oxen, some of sheep—none of these does it see nor perceive any of them, but, overlooking that, it picks out the trail from all directions and follows it, until it both finds and starts …
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The hare, an animal treated locally as a beast of the chase in Somerton and typically included among warren game.
In one district at least (Somerton) the definition of beasts of the chase extended to the ordinary hare;
“The same Peter imprisoned Peter, the son of Constantine of Liddington, for two days and two nights at Allexton, and bound him with iron chains on suspicion of having taken a certain rabbit in Eastwood;
” In practice it chiefly embraced hares and foxes.
Nicomachean Ethics
An animal cited as prey in the illustration of hounds' appetite.
Hounds do not take pleasure in scenting hares, but in eating them;
The Histories
Cited as the example of a heavily preyed-upon animal made extraordinarily fecund, able to superfetate while pregnant.
On the one hand, because the hare is hunted by every beast and bird and man, therefore it is quite prolific;
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The hare, named in the analogy of creatures identified by their place.
just as they say "the hedgehog of Barqah" (5) and "the lizard of Saḥā" (6) and "the hare of al-Khullah" (7) and "the wolf of Khamar" (8), and so distinguish between these and what else is ascribed to that kind, whether in fatness or in malice or in strength — so likewise they distinguish between the places of the jinn.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
A hare, figure of cowardice in the face of truth.
So beware, O man, of being a thicket within your own frame, holding a snake that strikes and a scorpion that stings, a leopard that tears and a camel that nurses rancour, a dog that dodges and a hare that turns coward before the truth, thorns and thistles that hurt, a lion that preys, and an ape with no portion but mimicry.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Smallest male size-class and the female's most mismatched partner; also names a nail-mark pattern.
When five marks with the nails are made close to one another near the nipple of the breast, it is called "the jump of a hare.
On the female side, the elephant and bull, the mare and hare, form low unions, while the elephant and the hare make the lowest unions.
, the hare man, the bull man, and the horse man, according to the size of his lingam.
Cyropaedia
The hare is a quarry whose habits require layered hunting tactics, later recommended as models for warfare.
And again, to catch the hare—because he feeds in the night and hides in the daytime—you used to breed dogs that would find him out by the scent.