Wolves
animal · 5 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
wolves · ravening wolves · the un-gracious wolves · الذئاب العادية
in the texts
Orations
Wild predators pursued by the herdsmen's dogs when threatening the cattle herd.
and whenever they saw wolves, they pursued them for a while, but of boars or deer they took no thought.
The Rights of War and Peace
Predators in the fable who demand the surrender of the sheep's dogs.
But whether an innocent citizen may be given up into the hands of an enemy to avoid imminent destruction, which would otherwise fall upon the state, is a point that has been formerly, and is still disputed by the learned, according to the beautiful fable, which Domosthenes told of the wolves, who demanded of the sheep the surrender of the dogs, as the only terms of peace.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
Ravening wolves, the image by which the Persians in the quoted passage characterized the Arabs as savage and self-devouring.
«They are like ravening wolves and shying wild beasts;
Rigveda
Wild wolves invoked as the feared devourers of one who dies while fleeing.
then he would lie in the lap of Nirṛti — then the fierce wolves would devour him.
let not the un-gracious wolves devour you;
Memorabilia
Predatory animals mentioned as the threat from which dogs guard sheep, both within Socrates's fable and in his literal question to Criton about farm dogs.
Tell me, Criton, said Socrates, do you keep dogs to fend the wolves from your sheep?
Do not I keep you from being stolen by thieves, and carried off by wolves?