Cattle and herds
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
cattle · calves · the herd · bulls · cows · flocks · heifers · horses
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On the Happy Life (Latin)
In the same class set those men whom a dull nature and ignorance of themselves have reduced to the rank of cattle and lifeless things.
in the texts
Orations
The horses, cattle, and flocks once tended by the huntsmen's fathers for a wealthy landowner, later confiscated.
rather our fathers were free men, but no less poor than we, hired herdsmen, tending the cattle of a wealthy man, one of those here from the island, who possessed many herds both of horses and of cattle, and many flocks, and many fine fields, and much other property, and all these mountains.
At that time, then, of necessity we remained on the spot where we happened to have the cattle, having made some huts and a yard of timber, not large nor strong, for the sake of the calves, with a view, I suppose, to the very summer.
for the spot was sheltered on either side, a deep and shady glen, and through the middle a river not rough, but very easy for both cattle and calves to ford, and the water plentiful and clean, since the spring rose near, and a breeze ever blowing through the glen in summer;
Bacchae
The grazing livestock on Kithairon that the frenzied Bacchae tear apart with their bare hands.
We fled and escaped from being torn apart by the Bacchae, but they, with unarmed hands, sprang on the heifers browsing the grass.
Bulls who before were fierce, and showed their fury with their horns, stumbled to the ground, dragged down by countless young hands.
On the Happy Life
Cattle, used as a recurring simile for people who follow the crowd without exercising reason.
In the same class set those men whom a dull nature and ignorance of themselves have reduced to the rank of cattle and lifeless things.
Nothing, then, is more to be guarded against than that we should not, after the manner of cattle, follow the herd of those who go before us, making our way not where we ought to go but where the crowd goes.