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Aelian, Nature Of Animals, 2.31


nanThe Salamander is not indeed one of those fire-born creatures like the so-called 'Fire-flies,' yet it is as bold as they and encounters the flame and is eager to fight it like an enemy. And the proof of this is as follows. Its haunts are among artisans and craftsmen who work at the forge. Now so long as their fire is at full blast and they have it to help their craft and to share their skill, they pay not the smallest attention to this animal. When however the fire goes out or languishes and the bellows blow in vain, then at once they know full well that the aforesaid creature is working against them. Accordingly they track it down and exact vengeance; and then the fire is lit, is easily coaxed up, and does not go out, provided it is kept fed with the usual material.


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1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 1.22, 1.28 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

1.22. וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים לֵאמֹר פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ וּמִלְאוּ אֶת־הַמַּיִם בַּיַּמִּים וְהָעוֹף יִרֶב בָּאָרֶץ׃ 1.28. וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם אֱלֹהִים פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ וּמִלְאוּ אֶת־הָאָרֶץ וְכִבְשֻׁהָ וּרְדוּ בִּדְגַת הַיָּם וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּבְכָל־חַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת עַל־הָאָרֶץ׃ 1.22. And God blessed them, saying: ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.’" 1.28. And God blessed them; and God said unto them: ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.’"
2. Hebrew Bible, Leviticus, 11.29-11.30 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

11.29. וְזֶה לָכֶם הַטָּמֵא בַּשֶּׁרֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵץ עַל־הָאָרֶץ הַחֹלֶד וְהָעַכְבָּר וְהַצָּב לְמִינֵהוּ׃ 11.29. And these are they which are unclean unto you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kinds," 11.30. and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon."
3. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 104.2, 104.24, 104.30 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

104.2. תָּשֶׁת־חֹשֶׁךְ וִיהִי לָיְלָה בּוֹ־תִרְמֹשׂ כָּל־חַיְתוֹ־יָעַר׃ 104.2. עֹטֶה־אוֹר כַּשַּׂלְמָה נוֹטֶה שָׁמַיִם כַּיְרִיעָה׃ 104.24. מָה־רַבּוּ מַעֲשֶׂיךָ יְהוָה כֻּלָּם בְּחָכְמָה עָשִׂיתָ מָלְאָה הָאָרֶץ קִנְיָנֶךָ׃ 104.2. Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;" 104.24. How manifold are Thy works, O LORD! In wisdom hast Thou made them all; The earth is full of Thy creatures." 104.30. Thou sendest forth Thy spirit, they are created; and Thou renewest the face of the earth."
4. Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes, 12.11 (5th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

12.11. דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים כַּדָּרְבֹנוֹת וּכְמַשְׂמְרוֹת נְטוּעִים בַּעֲלֵי אֲסֻפּוֹת נִתְּנוּ מֵרֹעֶה אֶחָד׃ 12.11. The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd."
5. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

40a. another the winged kind which traverses the air; thirdly, the class which inhabits the waters; and fourthly, that which goes on foot on dry land. The form of the divine class He wrought for the most part out of fire, that this kind might be as bright as possible to behold and as fair; and likening it to the All He made it truly spherical; and He placed it in the intelligence of the Supreme to follow therewith, distributing it round about over all the Heaven, to be unto it a veritable adornment cunningly traced over the whole. And each member of this class He endowed with two motions, whereof the one is uniform motion in the same spot, whereby it conceives always identical thoughts about the same objects
6. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 10.188 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
akiva, rabbi, ribuy technique of Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
animals' Nicklas and Spittler, Credible, Incredible: The Miraculous in the Ancient Mediterranean. (2013) 231
animals Nicklas and Spittler, Credible, Incredible: The Miraculous in the Ancient Mediterranean. (2013) 232
aristotle Schaaf, Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World (2019) 65
daniel Schaaf, Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World (2019) 65
eidos (form) Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
elements Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
exegesis Schaaf, Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World (2019) 65
fire, animals born from Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
generation, and generative interpretations Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
genos Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
holed Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
interpretations, generative Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
lizard/turtle (tsav) Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
mice Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
miracle/miraculous Schaaf, Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World (2019) 65
palms Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
plants Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
plato Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
ribuy (expansiveness, inclusion) Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
salamanders Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221
symbol/symbolism Schaaf, Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World (2019) 65
torah, fruitfulness of Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 221