Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Animals

    Sheep

    animal · 12 works · 15 mentions · 19 anchored passages

    sheep · the sheep · 60 sheep · Twelve sheep · a sheep · ewes · flock of sheep · lambs · the sheep cook-fashion

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The Sheep2 mentions

    On the Estate of Hagnias (Greek) · Memorabilia (Greek)

    for Theophon, his wife's brother, at his death adopted one of his daughters and left her his property, consisting of land at Eleusis worth two talents, 60 sheep, 100 goats, furniture, a fine horse which he rode when he was a cavalry commander, and all the rest of his goods and chattels.
    on the estate of hagnias

    in the texts

    De Agri CulturaClassical · Latin

    Sheep kept on the farm and pastured or fed with cut leaves.

    Where you are going to sow, pasture the sheep there, and give them leaves until the fodder is mature.
    de agri cultura
    If straw runs short, gather oak leaves and lay them down as bedding for the sheep and oxen.
    de agri cultura
    one hundred sheep;
    de agri cultura

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    The sheep, used as an example to illustrate differing purposes of observation.

    The cook and the shepherd do not behold the sheep alike:
    book 1
    The shepherd, at any rate, cares too for each of the sheep;
    book 6

    PeaceClassical · Greek

    The sacrificial animal offered to Peace, also used proverbially in Hierocles's mock oracle about the wolf marrying the sheep.

    TRYGAEUS No—for we cannot give you a share, before the wolf shall wed the sheep.
    peace
    HIEROCLES "For it is not yet pleasing to the blessed gods that we cease from strife, before the wolf shall wed the sheep.
    peace
    then see that you slaughter the sheep cook-fashion.
    peace

    WaspsClassical · Greek

    Sheep representing the Athenian assembly-goers in Sosias's dream.

    SOSIAS In my first sleep I dreamed that on the Pnyx a flock of sheep sat in assembly together, holding staffs and little threadbare cloaks;
    wasps

    On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

    Animal cited as bred for the sake of providing wool for men's clothing

    — sheep which indeed could neither be fed nor sustained nor yield any fruit from themselves without the tillage and care of men.
    book 2

    Works and DaysClassical · Greek

    Sheep, whose shearing, gelding, penning, and handling are each assigned to specific favorable days.

    Nor is the first sixth a fit day for a girl to be born, but a kindly for gelding kids and sheep and for fencing in a sheep cote.
    works and days
    Also the eleventh and twelfth are both excellent, alike for shearing sheep and for reaping the kindly fruits;
    works and days
    On that day tame sheep and shambling, horned oxen, and the sharp-fanged dog and hardy mules to the touch of the hand.
    works and days

    De haemorrhoidibusClassical · Greek

    An animal invoked as a comparison to describe the ease of separating the condyloma's covering from the flesh.

    If, then, the condyloma below the cover be of a soft nature, bring it away with the finger, for there is no more difficulty in this than in skinning a sheep, to pass the finger between the hide and the flesh.
    de haemorrhoidibus

    The Rights of War and PeaceRenaissance · English

    The party in the fable pressured to give up its protectors.

    But whether an innocent citizen may be given up into the hands of an enemy to avoid imminent destruction, which would otherwise fall upon the state, is a point that has been formerly, and is still disputed by the learned, according to the beautiful fable, which Domosthenes told of the wolves, who demanded of the sheep the surrender of the dogs, as the only terms of peace.
    ch. 30

    On the Estate of HagniasClassical · Greek

    Sixty sheep listed among the livestock Theophon bequeathed to Stratocles's adopted daughter.

    for Theophon, his wife's brother, at his death adopted one of his daughters and left her his property, consisting of land at Eleusis worth two talents, 60 sheep, 100 goats, furniture, a fine horse which he rode when he was a cavalry commander, and all the rest of his goods and chattels.
    on the estate of hagnias

    Law in a Free State19th Century · English

    Sheep used in an analogy for unthinking, follow-the-leader unanimity, contrasted with genuine correct judgment.

    Twelve sheep will unanimously jump through a gap in the hedge round an old quarry if one of them will but give the lead.
    ch. 3

    EconomicsClassical · Greek

    Sheep are productive animals whose value depends on knowledge, care, divine blessing, and protection.

    And if husbandry benefits horses and hounds, they benefit the farm no less, the horses by carrying the overseer early to the scene of his duties and enabling him to leave it late, the hounds by keeping the wild animals from injuring crops and sheep, and by helping to give safety to solitude.
    chapter 5
    if a man loses through ignorance of sheep farming, his sheep too will not be wealth to him?
    chapter 1
    Know of a surety that right-minded men offer prayer for fruits and crops and cattle and horses and sheep, aye and for all that they possess.
    chapter 5

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    The sheep in Socrates's fable, who questions why the dog is fed from the master's own food despite producing nothing, and who is answered and persuaded by the dog's claim to guard the flock.

    It is strange that you give us sheep nothing but what we get from the land, though we supply you with wool and lambs and cheese, and yet you share your own food with your dog, who supplies you with none of these things.
    book 2
    Do not I keep you from being stolen by thieves, and carried off by wolves?
    book 2
    The dog heard this, and said:
    book 2