Panther
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
panther · the panthers
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Cited as an example of an animal with instinctive knowledge of an antidote to poison.
It has been heard that the panthers, which in barbarous lands are caught by poisoned flesh, have a certain remedy, which, when they have used it, they do not die;
De Rerum Natura
A predatory beast imagined attacking sleepers in nightmare.
By fangs of panther or of lion fierce.