Jowett: wolf

Soc. May not "the wolf," as the proverb says, "claim a hearing" ? PHAEDRUS  

Str. Yes, the same sort of likeness which a wolf, who is the fiercest of animals, has to a dog, who is the gentlest. But he who would not be found tripping, ought to be very careful in this matter of comparisons, for they are most slippery things. Nevertheless, let us assume that the Sophists are the men. I say this provisionally, for I think that the line which divides them will be marked enough if proper care is taken. SOPHIST

The tale is that he who has tasted the entrails of a single human victim minced up with the entrails of other victims is destined to become a wolf. Did you never hear it ? THE REPUBLIC   BOOK VIII

And the protector of the people is like him ; having a mob entirely at his disposal, he is not restrained from shedding the blood of kinsmen ; by the favorite method of false accusation he brings them into court and murders them, making the life of man to disappear, and with unholy tongue and lips tasting the blood of his fellow-citizens ; some he kills and others he banishes, at the same time hinting at the abolition of debts and partition of lands : and after this, what will be his destiny ? Must he not either perish at the hands of his enemies, or from being a man become a wolf — that is, a tyrant ? THE REPUBLIC BOOK VIII