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.

If he is of the tribe of the Wolf, the midwives cry out at his delivery, «A little wolf has been born to us», and they sew into the child's shirt a piece of a wolf's eye or of its heart.

The tribe of the Wolves holds that the wolves defend it on the field of battle, and most of the adherents of totemism imagine that the totem warns its people of a danger before it falls, by signs or tokens, after the manner of what is expressed as the omen (*faʼl*) or the bird-augury (*ṭīrah*).

among their old names is Ethelwolf (the noble wolf, or the wolf of the tilth).

So the wolf and the leopard do harm in seeking what they need in the present, and the snake and the scorpion do harm for what they imagine they will need in the outcome, because they imagine something harmful and repel it.

And the scorpion, the snake, the wolf and the leopard do harm only upon encounter, whereas man harms the near by striking and reviling and the far by backbiting and talebearing.

In it is the greed of the dung-beetle and the pig, the ruinousness of the wolf and the leopard, the harmfulness of the scorpion and the snake, the lust of the cock and the ass, and the craving of the camel and the ox in eating;

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.

if real pleasure were this, the ape would be greater in pleasure than man on account of the abundance of its eating, and the ravening wolf on account of the swiftness of its seizing, and the sparrowhawk (2) on account of the frequency of its coupling.

And how far apart are the pleasure of camel-drivers and wolves and the bliss of dwelling near the Lord of lords!

I swore alliance with the wild beasts and they with me — by their near covenants and by the distant ones and the wolf has taken to lying in wait for me, kindling the fight (1) — because my blow is light and my strength weak and a ghoul of the waste, a male and a female — as though upon the two of them were pieces of striped blanket-cloth

And one who mocks at me — yet had her eye — seen what terror I meet with, she would have gone mad A lank wolf, a siʻlāh and a ghoul in a waste — when night hid the jinn in it, she cried out (2)

Why do you see Laylā tormenting with vain hopes — a brother of the wastes who used to take comfort in the wolf and who became the ghoul's friend after enmity — a bosom friend, and the empty barren wastes (3) reared him

The wolf howled, and I took comfort in the wolf when it howled — and a man's voice sounded, and I all but took flight

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.