the fox
animal · 7 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages
foxes · fox · Abū al-Ḥuṣayn · Shuwāl · a fox · thaʻlab · the foxes · ابو الحصين · الثعالب · الثعلب
spoken of as
2 expressionsFox4 mentions
Stromata (Greek) · The Law of Torts (English) · Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English) · De Rerum Natura (Latin)
"The foxes have holes, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The fox, listed among the beasts no Arab claims as a forebear, one of the five specimens in the negative survey.
And if you study the condition of the Arabs today, in the deserts and the towns, the valleys and the mountains, you will not find among them a tribe, nor a clan, nor a single man who believes himself descended from a lion, a bull, a fox, a sycamore or a rose.
Name of the village — by-name of its people The people of Jabbāʻ — the firs » Nīḥā — the Nawar » Baʻadhrān — the foxes » al-Mukhtārah — the wolves » ʻAyn Qanyā — the firs » ʻAmmā Ṭūr — the strutting cocks » al-Mazraʻah — the cattle » ʻAynbāl — the donkey-foals » Baqlīn — the sheep » Jadīdat al-Shūf — the dogs (1)
The Jews, in their earliest periods, followed this pattern in naming, and that is why you see among their ancient names many names of animals:
Stromata
The fox, used figuratively for cunning, deceptive men and contrasted with the Son of Man.
"The foxes have holes, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
Orations
Fox invoked to further deflate the runner's boast of swiftness.
For I think you could not even outstrip a fox.
De Rerum Natura
Foxes cited as the paradigm example of a species that survives through cunning.
Cunning the foxes, flight the antlered stags.
The Law of Torts
An animal classed as noxious, whose fresh pursuit was once supposed (wrongly) to justify entry on another's land.
At one time it was supposed that the law justified entering on land in fresh pursuit of a fox, because the destruction of noxious animals is to be encouraged;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The fox, named as one of the two animals typically comprised within a private warren's hunting rights.
” In practice it chiefly embraced hares and foxes.
Law in a Free State
The fox from the fable of the fox who lost his tail, invoked as an illustration in the critique of arguments for enforced equality.
Even the fox in the fable would not have had his own tail cut off for the fun of seeing the other foxes in like plight.