She-wolf
animal · 6 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
a she-wolf · she-wolf · tawny wolf-skin · the she-wolf · wolf-nursed
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Animal used in simile for frenzied maternal distress in the love-charm.
As a she-wolf whose cubs have been devoured, or a tigress, would become frenzied with distress — even so become frenzied, sent by my anxious longing.
Quaestiones Romanae
The she-wolf traditionally said to have suckled the exposed infants Romulus and Remus, mentioned alongside the legend of a woodpecker also feeding them, cited in the explanation of the Latins' reverence for that bird.
Romulus
A wolf that suckles exposed infant twins in both the fabulous Tarchetius story and the main Romulus and Remus legend.
We were cast out to birds of prey and wild beasts, only to be nourished by them,—by the dugs of a she-wolf and the morsels of a woodpecker, as we lay in a little trough by the side of the great river.
Then a she-wolf visited the babes and gave them suck, while all sorts of birds brought morsels of food and put them into their mouths, until a cow-herd spied them, conquered his amazement, ventured to come to them, and took the children home with him.
Rigveda
Wolf to whom Ṛjrāśva gave rams, who calls out to the Aśvins urging aid for him.
Ṛjrāśva, who had given a hundred rams to the she-wolf, was led into darkness by his wicked father.
She-wolf called out to you, O mighty Aśvins, O men, carrying welfare for the blind:
Adversus Valentinianos
Animal used in simile for the heresy's shifting, adaptable character
For the rest, it has been permitted to give as much suasion to this heresy as it is customary for a she-wolf to put on a different shape every day.