Hawk
animal · 7 works · 9 mentions · 9 anchored passages
hawk · hawks · the hawk · dark bird of omen · long-winged bird · swiftly flying hawk
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Vitae philosophorum
A hawk pursuing a sparrow that took refuge with Xenocrates.
When a little sparrow was pursued by a hawk and rushed into his bosom, he stroked it and let it go, declaring that a suppliant must not be betrayed.
Some are distinguished in one way, some in another, and for this reason they differ in their senses also, hawks for instance being most keen-sighted, and dogs having a most acute sense of smell.
Rigveda
A bird of prey named as a potential danger to the omen-bird.
Let not the hawk slay you, nor the eagle;
the sun has eclipsed and the hawk has swooped down.
Stromata
Bird of prey appearing both in Mosaic dietary prohibition (symbolizing injustice) and in Egyptian sacred imagery (symbolizing God or the sun).
" For the eagle signifies plunder, the hawk injustice, and the raven greed.
Indeed, in Diospolis of Egypt, upon what is called the sacred portal, there is figured a child, a symbol of coming into being, and an old man, of decay, and a hawk, of God, and a fish, of hatred, and again, by another signification, a crocodile, of shamelessness.
"You shall not eat the swine, nor the eagle, nor the hawk, nor the raven.
Works and Days
A bird of prey who, in the fable told to the princes, seizes a nightingale in his talons and lectures her on the futility of resisting one who is stronger.
Thus said the hawk to the nightingale with speckled neck, while he carried her high up among the clouds, gripped fast in his talons, and she, pierced by his crooked talons, cried pitifully.
” So said the swiftly flying hawk, the long-winged bird.
Odyssey
A bird of prey, called Apollo's messenger, that appears carrying a dove as the second omen.
As he was speaking a bird flew by upon his right hand - a hawk, Apollo's messenger.
De Rerum Natura
Predatory birds appearing as the object of other birds' dream-terror.
Of hawks in chase, aswooping on for fight.
Aeneid
Bird used in simile for Camilla's predatory pursuit and kill.
with not less ease a hawk, dark bird of omen, from his mountain crag pursues on pinions strong a soaring dove to distant cloud, and, clutching with hooked claws, holds tight and rips,—while through celestial air the torn, ensanguined plumage floats along.