Wolf

Whatever mortal enemy sets upon us with wolf-like onslaught, O Vasus, protect us from injury.

Or whosoever would harm us, though we are guiltless — a mortal, like an enemy wolf who sneaks close — O Bṛhaspati, turn him from the path;

He who is my companion or comrade, O king, or who in a dream tells fear to the fearful like me — whether a thief who plans to betray us, or a wolf — from that one, O Varuṇa, protect us.

so prowls a wolf nigh the full sheepfold, and through wind and rain stands howling at the postern all night long;

beneath the ewes their bleating lambs lie safe;

As creeps back to the hills in pathless covert ere his foes pursue, from shepherd slain or mighty bull laid low, some wolf, who, now of his bold trespass ware, curls close against his paunch a quivering tail and to the forest tries:

HIEROCLES "For it is not yet pleasing to the blessed gods that we cease from strife, before the wolf shall wed the sheep.

TRYGAEUS No—for we cannot give you a share, before the wolf shall wed the sheep.

TRYGAEUS And how, you accursed man, could a wolf ever wed a sheep?

Let the wolf rush away by the farthest path, let the thief rush away by the far path;

and therewith the thief, the serpent, the sorcerer, and also the wolf.

the tiger, the man, the wolf.

Even the wolf, you know, Phaedrus, has a right to an advocate, as they say.

Then a wolf came to the spot, attracted by the scent, and seizing the flesh which had been fastened to the wallet in which the man had his letters, went off with it and the wallet too.

Here the wolf shakes not these wide spaces, as a wheel shakes.

" But, Christ confirming His own figures, "the bad shepherd is he who, seeing the wolf, flees and abandons the flock to be rent.