animal looking like a longhaired dog with a pointed nose and a bushy tail; either reddish with white underparts (fox) or yellowish brown with red tips to the fur on the back (jackal); scavenger; associated with destruction and devastation, and also with being insignificant but self-important; also intelligent and quick-witted, crafty
(a figurative extension of meaning of ἀλώπηξ[a] ‘fox,’ semantic domain 4.10) a wicked person, probably with the implication of being cunning and treacherous
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