sparrows · Atlas

spoken of as

2 expressions

Sparrow5 mentions

Wasps (Greek) · Vitae philosophorum (Greek) · Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English) · De Fuga in Persecutione (Latin) · Sulla (Greek)

BDELYCLEON Oh no, the man's turning into a sparrow.

wasps ¶

the sparrow1 mention

Sulla (Greek)

in the texts

De Carnis ResurrectioneLate Antiquity · Latin

Common birds invoked in Christ's saying and compared to the phoenix to argue humans deserve resurrection all the more.

The Lord pronounced that we are of more worth than many sparrows;

de carnis resurrectione ¶

For although this is not granted to sparrows, yet we are of more worth than many sparrows, in that, falling, we rise again — affirming that the very hairs of whose head are all numbered, surely He promises in turn to be safe.

de carnis resurrectione ¶

BirdsClassical · Greek

The birds Pisthetaerus proposes to unleash upon human crops as a punishment for continued worship of the Olympian gods.

Then a cloud of sparrows greedy for corn must descend upon their fields and eat up all their seeds;

birds ¶

WaspsClassical · Greek

A bird Philocleon is compared to as he tries to fly off from confinement.

BDELYCLEON Oh no, the man's turning into a sparrow.

wasps ¶

Vitae philosophorumImperial · Greek

A sparrow that fled to Xenocrates for protection from a hawk, illustrating his principle about suppliants.

When a little sparrow was pursued by a hawk and rushed into his bosom, he stroked it and let it go, declaring that a suppliant must not be betrayed.

book 4 ¶

Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

Bird cited as the displaced party in the cuckoo simile, representing constitutional principles ousted by precedent.

But, how can a nation love an embryo litter of fluctuating precedents, concealed in the womb of time, each of which as it grows, hustles some principle out of the constitution, as the cuckoo does the sparrow out of its own nest?

ch. 13 ¶

SullaImperial · Greek

A sparrow that flew into the senate's meeting place carrying a grasshopper, interpreted as an omen of civic dissension.

ChrestomathyLate Antiquity · Greek

Birds devoured by the serpent in the portent at Aulis.

and the portent of the serpent and the sparrows is shown to them, and Calchas foretells to them what is to come about.

chrestomathy ¶

De Fuga in PersecutioneLate Antiquity · Latin

A small bird cited as an example of God's providence extending even to trivial creatures.

Believe it, surely—if indeed you believe in that God without whose will not even a sparrow worth a farthing falls to the ground.

de fuga in persecutione ¶

ScorpiaceLate Antiquity · Latin

Small birds cited in Christ's saying as an example of divine providence, contrasted with human worth.