Hare
animal · 8 works · 10 mentions · 16 anchored passages
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Orations
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;
Apophthegmata Laconica
A hare figuring twice in this window: first as prey released in Lycurgus's demonstration, and later as a sign of a besieged town's undefended laxity.
The Corinthians revolting, and he approaching to the walls that he saw the Spartans not eager to storm, while at the same time hares were skipping over the trenches of the town;
Both these dogs he brought out into the public assembly, and setting down some scraps of meat and letting go a hare at the same time, each of the dogs ran greedily to what they had been accustomed.
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.
On Hunting
The primary game animal whose scent, form, flight, terrain habits, anatomy, reproduction, and capture are examined.
Since, then, but few of the old hares and the leverets that they produce are exterminated by hunting, they are bound to be abundant.
Scent is most irregular at that time, for the hares, enjoying the light, fling themselves high in the air and jump a long way, frolicking with one another;
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;