Lions

the lions roar;

How fearful are the hearts of lions at the lightest sounds!

"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;

Unable to hold the surging wrath within;

Of which kind chief are fierce abounding lions,

Who often with roaring burst the breast o'erwrought,

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.

—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;

For neither the fiery fox nor loud-roaring lions change their nature.

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.

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 …

The jackal has eaten the lion facing him;

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;

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;

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.

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.

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.