Lions

the lions roar;

The motion of a chariot and the turning face of the wheels drive lions back into the cage;

"Those animals," he says, "are held the noblest in which there is much anger.

And they told him that bears and boars and lions and leopards had killed many who came close to them, but that deer and gazelles and wild sheep and wild asses were harmless.

hunger you use regularly as a sauce, and you endure drinking plain water more readily than lions do, while you have stored up in your souls that best of all possessions and the one most suitable to war:

but again a second time my son hit his mark and killed the lion and cried, Have I not thrown twice in succession and brought an animal down each time!

and if he be shut up with lions, he will tame the beasts;

Besides this, the lion is to them a symbol of strength and might;

But the condition of totemism is precisely that the Banū Asad believe the lion to be their ancestor, and that they hold every lion sacred or worship it — that is, do it no harm.

And if you study the condition of the Arabs today, in the deserts and the towns, the valleys and the mountains, you will not find among them a tribe, nor a clan, nor a single man who believes himself descended from a lion, a bull, a fox, a sycamore or a rose.

for you see for the lion hundreds of names, most of them by-names they gave it which then became names;

Of which kind chief are fierce abounding lions,

Who often with roaring burst the breast o'erwrought,

Unable to hold the surging wrath within;

when a sea offers itself, cleansing with dust is not lawful for me — and upon the clearness of the nights turbidity comes to pass, and the beasts have learned the scent of lions — with the brow of the ass the hoof of the horse goes forth.

the companion of the ruler is like the rider of a lion — people fear him, while he fears his mount the more.

The lion does not care about the lowing of the ox, but about devouring it, though the lowing tells him that the ox is near, and consequently he appears to take pleasure in the sound.

On the beautiful and the ugly (1), the precious and the base — Among animals there are those that do not (2) do what is hateful and injurious, like the lion that does not harm its keeper;

—but sleepless and lean, like the lions, keen of sight, keen of hearing, taking thought neither for winter nor for heat, needing no bedding or fine cloaks or carpets, but clad in a filthy hide, breathing hunger, aiding the good, chastising the wicked.

As Xerxes marched by this route, lions attacked the camels which carried his provisions;

The boundary of the lions' country is the river Nestus which flows through Abdera and the river Achelous which flows through Acarnania.

Also there were upon the shield droves of boars and lions who glared at each other, being furious and eager:

And both sides were roused still more to fight because they were angry, the fierce boars and the bright-eyed lions.

For already a great lion lay between them and two boars, one on either side, bereft of life, and their dark blood was dripping down upon the ground;

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.

And do we not censure self-will and irascibility when they foster and intensify disproportionately the element of the lion and the snake in us?

And on the other hand he who says that justice is the more profitable affirms that all our actions and words should tend to give the man within us complete domination over the entire man and make him take charge of the many-headed beast—like a farmer who cherishes and trains the cultivated plants but checks the growth of the wild—and he will make an ally of the lion’s nature, and caring for all th …

Then fashion one other form of a lion and one of a man and let the first be far the largest and the second second in size.

The jackal has eaten the lion facing him;

and the observance of order, so that one does not begin with the more specific before the more general, is hard, and the search for the nearer genus is hard — for you may well say of the lion that it is a courageous animal, and the word “beast of prey” does not occur to you;

A lion is sent into the arena differently with gilded mane, while it is handled and, worn out, is forced into endurance of receiving the ornament, differently when wild and of unbroken spirit;

For but lately, by condemning a Christian woman to the pander rather than to the lion, you confessed that among us a stain upon chastity is reckoned more dreadful than any penalty and any death.

But in things of this kind, if anything is to be judged worthy of derision, it should be of derision, not of swords and fires and crosses and beasts;

The lion will plainly forget his ferocity, when forestalled by the training of tameness, and with all his array of mane will become the darling of some queen Berenice, cleaning her cheeks with his tongue.

If he was pitiable to God, he had been horrible to the lions in the den, where indeed an angel furnished a dinner for him as he fasted six days.

It does not station the angel of dew in the midst of fires, nor stop the mouths of lions, nor transfer to the hungry the rustics' meal;

and that among these are to be reckoned all those things from which the spectacles are furnished—the horse, for example, and the lion, and bodily strength and the sweetness of the voice;

For Daniel too — the suppliant of none but God, and therefore accused and demanded by the Chaldeans — the shut-in and accustomed ferocity of the lions would surely at once have devoured, had Darius's worthy presumption about God deserved to be disappointed.

Sahāvatī is the name of his dominion, a lion is his mount.