Wolf and Dog · Atlas

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StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

Wolf and dog, cited together as an analogy for deceptive resemblance, paralleling how conjecture counterfeits true faith.

And conjecture counterfeits faith, being a weak assumption, as the flatterer counterfeits the friend and the wolf the dog.

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SophistClassical · Greek

Paired animals used as a simile: a wolf, the wildest of animals, closely resembles a dog, the tamest, illustrating how misleading surface resemblance can be.

Yes, and a wolf is very like a dog, the wildest like the tamest of animals.

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