Falsafa

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

    The Atlas·Animals

    Wild Boar

    animal · 4 works · 4 mentions · 14 anchored passages

    wild boar · the boar · piglets · sow · wild boars · young pigs

    spoken of as

    2 expressions

    The wild boar1 mention

    Odyssey (Greek)

    Odysseus was the first to raise his spear and try to drive it into the brute, but the boar was too quick for him, and charged him sideways, ripping him above the knee with a gash that tore deep though it did not reach the bone.
    chapter 14

    Wild boars1 mention

    Cyropaedia (Greek)

    Why did you learn to ensnare wild boars with nets and pitfalls, and deer with traps and toils?
    chapter 1

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    A fierce boar that wounded the young Odysseus during a hunt on Parnassus, leaving the scar by which he is later recognized.

    Odysseus was the first to raise his spear and try to drive it into the brute, but the boar was too quick for him, and charged him sideways, ripping him above the knee with a gash that tore deep though it did not reach the bone.
    chapter 14
    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.
    chapter 19

    Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

    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.
    chapter 174
    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.
    ii origin of the forests

    CyropaediaClassical · Greek

    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?
    chapter 1

    On HuntingClassical · Greek

    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.

    The young pigs are not to be caught without difficulty.
    chapter 10
    As soon as the hounds are near the lair, they will go for him.
    chapter 10
    The boar is also captured, in hot weather, when pursued by the hounds;
    chapter 10