Geese
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
geese · goose · the geese · twenty geese
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
De Agri Cultura
Domestic geese fattened alongside hens, with a slightly different feeding order.
Feed the goose in the same way, except give it to drink first, and twice a day, twice food.
Odyssey
Penelope's twenty pet geese, killed by the eagle in her dream, symbolizing the suitors doomed to die.
I have twenty geese about the house that eat mash out of a trough, and of which I am exceedingly fond.
Statesman
Fowl bred on Thessalian farms, cited alongside cranes as an example of land-and-air herding.
And surely, even if you have not wandered over the plains of Thessaly, you have heard of goose-farms and crane-farms there and you believe that they exist.