Leopard
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leopards · Leopards · the leopard his spots
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Cyropaedia (Greek)
Cyrus, therefore, eagerly inquired of those who attended him what animals one ought not to approach and what animals one might pursue without fear.
in the texts
Letters
Animal invoked in a proverb illustrating the fixed, unchangeable nature of ingrained heresy.
But when, on coming into Cilicia and meeting a certain Gelasius, he set forth to him a creed which only Arius, or some genuine disciple of his, could have composed, then indeed we were the more confirmed in our separation, reckoning that neither will the Ethiopian ever change his skin, nor the leopard his spots, nor can one bred up in perverse doctrines wash off the evil of his heresy.
Cyropaedia
Dangerous wild animals in Cyrus' hunting lesson.
Cyrus, therefore, eagerly inquired of those who attended him what animals one ought not to approach and what animals one might pursue without fear.
On Hunting
One of the large foreign predators (leopards) said to be captured in mountain ranges beyond Macedonia and Syria, using poisoned bait or pit traps.
On the mountains they are sometimes poisoned, owing to the difficulty of the ground, with aconite.
Lions, leopards, lynxes, panthers, bears and all similar wild beasts are captured in foreign countries, about Mt.
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.