Wolf · Atlas · Falsafa

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Sāmaveda (Sanskrit) · Phaedrus (Greek)

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

Predatory animal used repeatedly as a simile for hostile or treacherous enemies.

Protect us, O gods, from the ravage of the 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;

Predatory animal invoked as a danger to be made to flee by the farthest path.

the tiger, the man, the wolf.

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

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

A proverbial animal cited by Socrates to introduce his presentation of the rhetoricians' defense of probability over truth.

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

A wolf invoked in a simile about stability of the wide spaces.

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

Predator whose approach causes the bad shepherd to flee and abandon the flock, figuring the threat of persecution.

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