ox
animal · 10 works · 13 mentions · 14 anchored passages
the ox · an ox · oxen · a calf · the ox that treads out the corn · working oxen
spoken of as
1 expressionthe ox6 mentions
Adversus Marcionem (Latin) · Letters (Greek) · Characters (Greek) · Iliad (Greek)
when even to the ox that treads out the corn the bonds of his mouth are loosed, unto the fruit of his present labour — that the more easily a humanity, premeditated in cattle, might be schooled toward the refreshment of men.
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The plough-ox whose mouth the law forbids binding while it treads the grain, cited as an instance of the law's humane character.
when even to the ox that treads out the corn the bonds of his mouth are loosed, unto the fruit of his present labour — that the more easily a humanity, premeditated in cattle, might be schooled toward the refreshment of men.
Who would have commanded this but he who both feeds the ravens and clothes the flowers of the field, who before granted to the ox too treading out the grain freedom of mouth for the pardon of fodder, in removing it from the work, because the worker is worthy of his hire?
Even now here the law of the Creator is sealed, who judges even the working oxen worthy workers of their hire.
Stromata
Domestic animal figuring in quoted scripture as an example of recognizing its master, contrasted with Israel's failure to know God.
"The ox knew its owner, and the ass the manger of its master;
"With the innocent man you shall be innocent, and with the elect you shall be elect, and with the perverse you shall be perverse.
"And if anyone open a pit, or hew one out," it says, "and do not cover it, and a calf or an ass fall in there, the owner of the pit shall pay money and give it to his neighbour;
Nicomachean Ethics
An animal cited as prey in the illustration of the lion's appetite.
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.
Letters
Animal cited in the semantic argument about 'knowing'.
'The ox,' it says, 'knew its owner'—so then, by your account, the ox knew the substance of its master;
Iliad
A large, well-fattened ox offered as the second prize of the footrace and won by Ajax son of Oileus.
But Ajax took the ox and stood with his hand on one of its horns, spitting the dung out of his mouth.
For the second prize he offered a large ox, well fattened, while for the last there was to be half a talent of gold.
Lovers
Used as a further example animal in the self-knowledge analogy.
And if one were an ox and did not know the wicked and good oxen, would one not know which sort one was oneself?
Theaetetus
An ox used alongside the horse as an example of two plainly distinct things that no one could seriously confuse.
Do you imagine that anyone else, sane or insane, ever ventured to say to himself seriously and try to persuade himself that the ox must necessarily be a horse, or two one?
Characters
A sacrificial animal whose skin the petty-ambitious man displays prominently to advertise his sacrifice to visitors.
Having sacrificed an ox, he nails up the skin of its forehead opposite the entrance, bound round with great garlands, so that those who come in may see that he has sacrificed an ox.
San Hyan Mahajnana
The ox, allegorically identified with the god Brahmā (Pitāmaha) as the animal drawing the cosmic cart of Viṣṇu.
The holy Viṣṇu is the chariot.
*The cart is said to be Viṣṇu, the ox is Pitāmaha.
Law in a Free State
Oxen listed among beasts of burden in the analogy about labour displacement.
if there were no horses, asses, oxen, other beasts of burden, or engines, it is clear that men would be required to do the lifting, carrying, and pulling themselves, just as they did under the Pharaohs who built the Pyramids.