pardus
From LSJ
ἔγνω δὲ φώρ τε φῶρα καὶ λύκος λύκον → the thief knows the thief and the wolf knows the wolf, and thief knows thief and wolf his fellow wolf, set a thief to catch a thief
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
pardus: i, m., = πάρδος>,
I a male panther: nunc varias (pantheras) et pardos, qui mares sunt, appellant in eo omni genere creberrimo in Africā Syriāque, Plin. 8, 17, 23, § 63; 10, 73, 94, § 202; 11, 37, 65, § 172; Juv. 11, 123.—Prov.: si mutare potest Aethiops pellem suam, aut pardus varietates suas, Vulg. Jer. 13, 23.
