Stag
animal · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
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spoken of as
2 expressionsThe stag2 mentions
Odyssey (Greek) · De Paenitentia (Latin)
"When I had nearly got back to the ship some god took pity upon my solitude, and sent a fine antlered stag right into the middle of my path.
Stags1 mention
Hymn 27 to Artemis (Greek)
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.
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.
"When I had nearly got back to the ship some god took pity upon my solitude, and sent a fine antlered stag right into the middle of my path.
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.