Vultures
animal · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
vultures · flesh-eating creatures · two vultures
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1 expressionThe Vultures1 mention
Caius Marius (Greek)
Two vultures were always seen hovering about the armies of Marius before their victories, and accompanied them on their journeys, being recognized by bronze rings on their necks;
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
Vultures cited as being drawn by the scent of carcasses.
Are led by odour of honey, vultures too
By carcasses.
Caius Marius
Two vultures that recurringly hovered about Marius's armies before their victories.
Two vultures were always seen hovering about the armies of Marius before their victories, and accompanied them on their journeys, being recognized by bronze rings on their necks;
De capienda ex inimicis utilitate
Carrion birds used as an analogy for how enemies fasten only upon our faults and failings, being insensible to what is sound in us, just as vultures are drawn only to corrupted flesh.
just as vultures pursue putrid flesh, noisome and corrupted carcasses, because they have no perception of those that are sound and in health.
Adversus Valentinianos
Animal cited as bearing only females, analogy for Sophia's birth of Enthymesis
and they say that vultures bear only females.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Vultures invoked as an omen and as scavengers destined to feed on Rāvaṇa's corpse.
"Let vultures alight on your chest, O Rāvaṇa, as you lie cast on the ground, and drink thirstily the blood oozing from the wounds of arrow-shafts.
A great flock of vultures, hovering in the sky, flew in whatever direction his chariot moved.
In battle it was ever a feast for flocks of herons, vultures, jackals, and rākṣasas;