Stag
animal · 6 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
the stag · a fine antlered stag · stag · stags · the general herd · three stags
spoken of as
2 expressionsStags2 mentions
Hymn 27 to Artemis (Greek) · Aeneid (Latin)
I sing of Artemis, whose shafts are of gold, who cheers on the hounds, the pure maiden, shooter of stags, who delights in archery, own sister to Apollo with the golden sword.
The stag2 mentions
Odyssey (Greek) · De Paenitentia (Latin)
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
An animal cited as an example of potential prey for the lion.
Similarly he is not pleased by the sight of or stag or mountain goat, but by the prospect of a meal.
Odyssey
A deer Odysseus kills to provide food for his starving men.
Hymn 27 to Artemis
Deer hunted by Artemis.
I sing of Artemis, whose shafts are of gold, who cheers on the hounds, the pure maiden, shooter of stags, who delights in archery, own sister to Apollo with the golden sword.
De Paenitentia
A wounded deer that instinctively heals itself with the herb dittany, cited as an example of natural self-restoration.
The stag, pierced through by an arrow, that it may expel from the wound the iron and its irrevocable lingerings, knows that it must heal itself by dittany.
De Pallio
Animal cited for renewing its youth, illustrating natural change.
I say nothing of the stag, who likewise, the arbiter of his own age, fed upon the poison of a serpent, languishes back into youth.
Aeneid
The deer herd hunted by Aeneas to feed his shipwrecked companions.
but while he looks, three stags along the shore come straying by, and close behind them comes the whole herd, browsing through the lowland vale in one long line.
his next assailed the general herd, and drove them one and all in panic through the leafy wood, nor ceased the victory of his bow, till on the ground lay seven huge forms, one gift for every ship.