Wild boar
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Eudemian Ethics (Greek) · Cyropaedia (Greek)
Hence wild boars are thought to be brave, though they are not really, for they are so when they are beside themselves, but otherwise they are variable, like daring men.
The wild boar1 mention
Odyssey (Greek)
And indeed as soon as she began washing her master, she at once knew the scar as one that had been given him by a wild boar when he was hunting on Mount Parnassus with his excellent grandfather Autolykos - who was the most accomplished thief and perjurer in the whole world - and with the sons of Autolykos.
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Eudemian Ethics
Animals popularly thought brave due to their fury, used as an analogy for passion-based courage.
Hence wild boars are thought to be brave, though they are not really, for they are so when they are beside themselves, but otherwise they are variable, like daring men.
Odyssey
A fierce boar that wounded the young Odysseus during a hunt on Parnassus, leaving the scar by which he is later recognized.
And indeed as soon as she began washing her master, she at once knew the scar as one that had been given him by a wild boar when he was hunting on Mount Parnassus with his excellent grandfather Autolykos - who was the most accomplished thief and perjurer in the whole world - and with the sons of Autolykos.
Aeneid
Animal used in simile for Mezentius standing at bay against the Trojans.
As when a wild boar, harried from the hills by teeth of dogs (one who for many a year was safe in pine-clad Vesulus, or roamed the meres of Tiber, feeding in the reeds)
falls in the toils at last, and stands at bay, raging and bristling, and no hunter dares defy him or come near, but darts are hurled from far away, with cries unperilous:
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
A game animal classified among the 'beasts of the forest' protected under royal Forest Law.
Here the wild boar and deer of various species found shelter, in which they were protected by the severe regulations of the “Forest Law.
The King established a claim to an exclusive right to hunt the more important species of animals ferae naturae, known as “beasts of the forest”—embracing the red deer (harts and hinds), the fallow deer (bucks and does), the roe deer of both sexes, and the wild boar, with, exceptionally in one forest, the ordinary hare.
Cyropaedia
Wild boars are named as animals hunted by snares, nets, and pitfalls.
Why did you learn to ensnare wild boars with nets and pitfalls, and deer with traps and toils?
On Hunting
The wild boar, a large and dangerous game animal hunted with hounds, nets, javelins, spears and caltrops; the passage also treats the sow and young pigs of the same species.
For hunting the wild boar provide yourself with Indian, Cretan, Locrian and Laconian hounds, boar nets, javelins, spears and caltrops.
Many hounds are killed in this kind of sport, and the huntsmen themselves run risks, whenever in the course of the pursuit they are forced to approach a boar with their spears in their hands, when he is tired or standing in water or has posted himself by a steep declivity or is unwilling to come out of a thicket;
One of his fellow huntsmen must approach with a spear and provoke the boar by making as though he would hurl it;