Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Animals

    Wolves

    animal · 5 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    wolves · the un-gracious wolves

    in the texts

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    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.
    oration 7

    The Rights of War and PeaceRenaissance · English

    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.
    ch. 30

    LawsClassical · Greek

    Predatory animals used metaphorically for unjust men who try to bribe guardians (dogs) to ravage the flock.

    it is just as if wolves were to give small bits of their prey to watch-dogs, and they being mollified by the gifts were to allow them to go ravening among the flocks.
    book 10
    nor yet to dogs charmed by wolves?
    book 10

    RigvedaAncient · Sanskrit

    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.
    maṇḍala 10
    let not the un-gracious wolves devour you;
    maṇḍala 10

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    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?
    book 2
    Do not I keep you from being stolen by thieves, and carried off by wolves?
    book 2