Lioness
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
a lioness · the lioness · this she-lion
in the texts
Medea
A predatory animal used repeatedly by Jason as a simile for Medea's ferocity in killing her own offspring.
dost mark the treatment I receive from this she-lion, fell murderess of her young?
yet before them all I chose thee for my wife, wedding a foe to be my doom, no woman, but a lioness fiercer than Tyrrhene Scylla in nature.
The Histories
Cited as the counter-example to the hare: a powerful, undangered predator whose extreme low fertility is explained by the cub's claws tearing the womb.
On the one hand there is this sort of thing, but on the other hand the lioness, that is so powerful and so bold, once in her life bears one cub;