Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Animals

    Wild beasts

    animal · 7 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages

    wild beasts · a wild beast · animals · beasts · fierce beasts · huge and wild beasts · the beasts · the elephants · wild beast · wild-beast

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    Epigrams (Greek)

    The dog first hears a man approaching and the wild-beast coming to the fence.
    epigrams

    in the texts

    On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

    Beasts hunted for food, military training, taming (as elephants), and medicine

    Now the huge and wild beasts we get by hunting, both that we may feed on them and that we may exercise ourselves in hunting after the likeness of military training, and that we may use them tamed and well-broken, as the elephants, and that we may choose out of their bodies many remedies for diseases and wounds, just as from certain plants and herbs, whose usefulness we have perceived by the experi …
    book 2

    EpigramsClassical · Greek

    An animal threat approaching the fence.

    The dog first hears a man approaching and the wild-beast coming to the fence.
    epigrams

    Hymn 19 to PanClassical · Greek

    Wild beasts are the animals hunted and slain by Pan in the mountains.

    Often he courses through the glistening high mountains, and often on the shouldered hills he speeds along slaying wild beasts, this keen-eyed god.
    hymn 19 to pan

    Hymn 27 to ArtemisClassical · Greek

    The wild animals pursued and destroyed in Artemis's chase.

    But the goddess with a bold heart turns every way destroying the race of wild beasts:
    hymn 27 to artemis

    Barlaam and JosaphatMedieval · Greek

    Wild animals referenced both as a threat of martyrdom and as the cause of an injury.

    Know, then, that I will not obey you, nor will I share with you in such ingratitude toward God, nor will I deny my benefactor and Saviour, even if you give me to wild beasts, even if you hand me over to sword and fire, which are within your power.
    chapter 2
    As he walked alone — this happening, I think, by a divine dispensation — he found a man cast upon the ground in a thicket, his foot grievously crushed by a wild beast, who, seeing him pass by, entreated him not to hurry past, but to take pity on his misfortune and bring him to his own house, adding this also:
    chapter 4

    De SpectaculisLate Antiquity · Latin

    Wild animals used in the amphitheatre to tear apart condemned persons as part of the spectacle.

    But by little and little they advanced to as great a refinement as cruelty, because satisfaction was not done to the pleasure of the festivals unless human bodies too were torn apart by wild beasts.
    de spectaculis
    But who is surety to me that the guilty are always condemned, either to the beasts or to whatever punishment, so that it is not inflicted upon innocence too—either by the vengeance of the judge, or by the weakness of the defence, or by the rigour of the torture?
    de spectaculis

    CyropaediaClassical · Greek

    Animals pursued or avoided in hunting, used to train courage and caution.

    For it accustoms them to rise early in the morning and to endure both heat and cold, and it gives them practice in taking long tramps and runs, and they have to shoot or spear a wild beast whenever it comes in their way.
    chapter 1
    However, when Astyages realized that he was exceedingly eager to hunt out in the wilds, he let him go out with his uncle and he sent along some older men on horseback to look after him, to keep him away from dangerous places and guard him against wild beasts, in case any should appear.
    chapter 1